They are very proud to say at the beginning of each event that CFR takes no institutional or political decisions.
However ... the topics they choose to cover are from a leftist bent. The guests/panel members they feature are from a leftist bent. The audience questions are from a leftist bent. Which means that anything conservative, libertarian, or leftist simply doesn't get brought up. The flavor of CFR is quite clear.
But yeah, they take no position. NPR is the same. Leftist subjects, positions, leftist questions, leftist guests, leftist conclusions. When they have a token "conservative" it's invariably an inarticulate one who couldn't be more useless. It's never a Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Rand Paul, Reps. Higgins, Roy, Massie, Tiffany, Waltz, etc.
** should be or NOT leftist