Washington DC leads the world in the production of conventional wisdom, and its well-paid pundits are marketed as a commodity throughout the mass media. The pundit factories are called "think tanks," and they put out catalogs, cross-referenced by approved subject headings, of in-house hack scholars. It's a bit like promoting safe sex for reporters: when they need a soundbite or quotation to create the appearance of objectivity on a given issue, but don't want to risk their jobs by propagating unconventional ideas, they just whip out a scholar directory for one of these think tanks.
The Brookings Institution directory contains a half-page on each of 84
scholars, including a photograph, short biography, academic affiliations,
and a list of publications. Although thought of as "liberal," Brookings is
only liberal in the sense that the right-wing considers all internationalists
to be essentially liberal. It is thoroughly Establishment in every respect,
and is quite conservative on domestic issues. Their only claim to liberal
fame is that they were hated by Nixon. With his blessing, Charles Colson
even considered a plan to fire-bomb their building as a diversion, so that
the FBI could seize papers in the office of Brookings fellow Leslie Gelb.
Extract the names from this source