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 Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life that establishment-funded policy and lobbying organizations—Washington, D.C.-based by locale and D.C.-centric in their thinking—had supplanted the mobilizing, grassroots left of the early 20th Century.

Journalism is changing, with nonprofit outlets, especially on the left, playing an increasing role in how information gets to the people. Just this week, the press has praised States Newsroom, the Arabella Advisors-seeded network of DEI-focused state-level journalism outlets, and a senior editor at the government-and-Big-Philanthropy-funded National Public Radio has published an article detailing how the outlet shifted from orthodox-liberal in outlook to a radical vanguardist Everything Leftism with a…

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CRC's Scott Walter recently appeared on the Jesse Kelly Show to talk about his latest book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. While George Soros is…

Populist conservative U.S. Sen. J. D. Vance of Ohio (R) and progressive Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) of Rhode Island last month introduced a bill that would end tax-free mergers and…