InfluenceWatch Podcast 266: ESG in 2023
If the “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—movement had a guiding text, it would the Proxy Preview. Put out by the corporate social responsibility investing nonprofit As You Sow, the Proxy Preview…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #265: Athenai Institute Battles CCP Disinformation
The Athenai Institute is a college student-led organization that seeks to limit the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on U.S. college campuses. Since their inception in 2020, they have…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #264: I Will Not Eat the Bugs
National Public Radio is adamant: Nobody is going to make you eat the bugs. In fact, NPR says that believing governments and environmentalist activists want to make you eat the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #263: Protecting Our Children
This week, a spree shooter killed six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee; our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and the others affected.
InfluenceWatch Podcast #262: The Authoritarian Legal Left
What connects the disruptive protests against a conservative judge’s speech to Stanford Law and the arrests of over two dozen demonstrators outside Atlanta? Both involved people aligned with the National…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #261: Stolen Youth
To readers of the Capital Research Center or InfluenceWatch, none of the findings reported by New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and stay-at-home mother, children’s book editor, and political commentator Bethany…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #260: Are Unions Coming to College Sports?
In late 2021, following a class action suit in which the Supreme Court decided some college athletes should be allowed to earn money off their image and likeness, a Biden…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #259: Gore’s Climate Errors
Thirty years ago, Al Gore took office as Vice President of the United States. Over the intervening period, he has lost a campaign for President and reinvented himself as the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #258: How to Save the West with Spencer Klavan
Are America and broader Western Civilization in crisis? Today’s guest, author Spencer Klavan, says yes, and he has written How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises to…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #257: Labor Questions
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have…