InfluenceWatch Podcast #330: Viewing The DNC Protest From The Ground
Protesting, always a feature of the 1st Amendment right to free speech in America, has become quite the fashion lately among the American left, possibly even more so than during…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #329: How the Ford Foundation Took Over Storytelling
Hollywood and the entertainment industry are leftist; it has been since before actual Communists tried to infiltrate it in the 1930s and 1940s. But if you’ve noticed that entertainment has…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #328: Leftists Pack the Court
Left-wingers have been losing at the Supreme Court in recent years thanks to the intellectual success of the conservative legal movement, audacity in Republican management of judicial confirmations, and the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #327: In Depth on ESG
Environmental, social, and governance or ESG: What is it, what does it mean for the public? Our guest today, Paul Mueller of the American Institute for Economic Research, argues that…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #326: FILM REVIEWS: Juice and Climate: The Movie
There’s an ongoing policy war being waged between those who favor a weather dependent wind and solar approach to energy consumption and those who look to nuclear power and efficient…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #325: America’s Enemies Funding Universities?
How did universities become dens of sympathy for ideologies and factions implacably opposed to America and her allies, most recently demonstrated by the “Hamas glamper” protests at various elite campuses?…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #324: The WEIRD Elite
I’m Sarah Lee and joining me today is my colleague Parker Thayer because sitting in the hot seat is our regular host Mike Watson, and we’re going to be grilling…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #323: Megaphone Philanthropy
Is it, or at least should it be, charitable to fund political-advocacy protest over controversial sociopolitical issues? Our colleague Robert Stilson calls it “megaphone philanthropy,” and perhaps the prototypical practitioner…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #322: The Bias of Newsguard
NewsGuard: It’s a teachers-union approved tool purporting to rate information sources on how “nutritious” to one’s information diet they are, but the teachers’ union seal of approval should lead readers…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #321: The Environmentalist Billionaire You’ve Never Heard Of
You’ve heard of Mike Bloomberg; those longer in years might remember Tom Steyer; deep readers of Capital Research Center might remember Fred Stanback; the billionaire environmentalist donor is a repeating…