A Conversation with the Tax Foundation’s Scott Hodge (Part 1 of 2)
Scott Hodge has been one of the country’s leading experts on tax policy, the federal budget, and government spending for decades. From 2000 to 2022, he was president and chief…
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A Conversation with the Tax Foundation’s Scott Hodge (Part 2 of 2)
Scott Hodge has been one of the country’s leading experts on tax policy, the federal budget, and government spending for decades. From 2000 to 2022, he was president and chief…
ARABELLAThe Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Transforming America
While figures like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are known for their hefty political donations, few Americans have heard of Arabella Advisors. Even more powerful than these standalone…
More Overstatement Of “The Powell Memo’s” Role
Mehrsa Baradaran’s new The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America joins many other histories in citing “the Powell memo” as an important part of their narratives. In the case of The Quiet Coup,…
Advancing After Getting Education Right
Advancing from Getting Education Right to getting education right will require combating the institutions—the teachers colleges, the labor unions, the bureaucracies, the Big Philanthropies, the universities—that have put education into…
Philanthropy in (as Self-Defined, a “Transformative”) Solidarity
The most-insightful critiques of progressive technocratic centralism come from those to its further left. In 2003, for example, Harvard sociologist and political scientist Theda Skocpol pointedly argued in her Diminished…
The Kingmaker of the Left: Arabella Advisors
"If you’re trying to understand American politics and the Left, it is much more important to look at who heads Arabella Advisors, or the Ford Foundation, than it is to…
The Bill Gates and Big Philanthropy Problems—and Ours
Money, including when it comes in the form of big donations, can solve a lot of problems, yes. Most of us would take it, along with the problems. The deceptive,…
Philanthropic Captains, Progressive Crews
Jeffrey E. Paul’s fine Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It, new from Encounter Books, begins by tracing the harmful…
Is the Future Really That Dark?
Glenn Beck's Dark Future will likely bring awareness of the Great Reset and its critics to a wider audience, those who have studied the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Great…