InfluenceWatch Podcast #355: Government-Enabled Drug Abuse
Addiction breaks lives, breaks families, and on a mass scale can break societies, but breaking an addiction is quite difficult. There are two main schools of thought for how to…
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A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Old Left and the Reds
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor and the New Left
The collapse of American Communism was not the end of American leftist radicalism, and the labor union movement would negotiate a complex dance with the “New Left” from its beginning…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Rise of the SEIU
Among the many problems afflicting Big Labor as the Long Decline began was organizing; namely turning workers into dues-paying union members, especially in the growing service industries and the historically…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor’s New Coalition
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…
What’s Wrong with Ethnic Studies?
In 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation requiring all California high school students to complete Ethnic Studies by the 2025–2026 school year. This divisive new course is riddled with social…
DOGE and HHS: Harm Reduction
Nobody should pretend that there is some simple, easy solution to the country’s drug crisis. If there were, discussions about harm reduction wouldn’t even be on the table. In the…
Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Deinstitutionalization of the Psychiatrically Vulnerable
As it is usually told, the fascinating story of how America came to embrace its now approximately half-century-long experiment in deinstitutionalizing psychiatrically vulnerable populations boils down to a set of…
Identity and the Place of the People in Democratically Defining and Expressing It in the West
In the early 2000s, there was a vigorous debate between Italian Senator Marcello Pera and then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger about European identity and its ramifications for all of the West. The…