InfluenceWatch Podcast #343: Trump’s Labor Mistake
Donald Trump has made quick work of nominating potential cabinet members, and many of those picks – while controversial – are being met with nods – albeit sometimes lukewarm nods…
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Phony Partisan “Charities” Overplayed Their Hand in 2024
Get-out-the-vote (GOTV) ads were more obnoxious this year. Sagging polls made the left’s GOTV machine desperate, and it dug deep in its bag of tricks to find ways to win. The full…
The New Left’s Total Victory in 2024
The New Left was still pretty “new” at the annual convention of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in June 1969. A direct ideological/historical line connects that long ago…
The Problem with Giving Tuesday
Remember when Silicon Valley hacked the cold-press juice market? In 2013, Doug Evans—a self-proclaimed Steve Jobs-like savant—laid plans to bring his $700, Wi-Fi-enabled, fruit and vegetable squeezer, Juicero Press, to…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: It Wasn’t Just the Presidency
The 2024 election results are easily shown by the New York Times election-swing map. Unlike 2020, in which the swing-from-2016 map shows many counties that shifted against the change in…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: The Current American Plurality
Since before the first election of President Barack Obama, Big Philanthropy and liberal interest groups have awaited the rise of a “New American Majority” to be based on a “rising…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: How the Left Lost
So how, then, did the Left lose? The answer can be found in the liberal-progressive-Democratic coalition’s process ideology, Everything Leftism. The Biden administration operationalized Everything Leftism throughout its government, with…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: Cautions and Conclusions
The Victory that now lies with President-elect Trump’s Republicans remains winged and ready to flee. They may find that, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s George Washington from the musical…
Philanthropy’s Corruption of Politics, and Vice Versa
From his perspective as a University of Oxford political philosopher, Theodore M. Lechterman has introduced a richly substantive critique of philanthropy’s anti-democratic nature to the rising number of such critiques…