Depending on your appetite for cynicism, greenwashing is either the mortal enemy or the duplicitous ally of the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement. ESG was created by activists…
In May 2021, with BlackRock's support Engine No. 1, a tiny hedge fund few had then heard of, won three seats on the 12-member board of Exxon. These new board…
In July 2022, BlackRock reported "a sharp drop in its support for environmental and social-related shareholder resolutions." Context is important. That same month BlackRock announced that it had lost $1.7…
These days, amid debates over critical race theory and radical gender theory in school curriculums as early as elementary school, parents might be wondering what alternative resources might be available…
Arabella Advisors has been around since 2005. Until an investigative reporter at Capital Research Center uncovered it, Arabella had never been mentioned in a mainstream news story, even though it…
Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
Eugenicists’ fear of racial intermixing made them natural allies with the feminists of the powerful birth control movement. While contraception is widespread today, few people are aware that in the…
For all its might it was clear by the mid-1920s that eugenics was losing its powerful influence in government and the scientific community. It’d taken decades to build—only to collapse…