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Organization Trends
Christopher DeMuth to Step Down as AEI President
Christopher DeMuth has announced that he will retire as president of the American Enterprise Institute in 2008. DeMuth became president in 1986. Under his leadership AEI’s budget grew from $7.7 million…
Robert Huberty
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The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
Human Events has re-published Deborah Corey Barnes’s fine article on former Vice President Al Gore’s self-serving crusade against carbon dioxide emissions, a hype campaign that could ultimately put millions of dollars in his…
Matthew Vadum
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Voting for School Choice in Utah
Human Events just published this article on the prospects for school choice in Utah by Phil Brand, director of CRC’s EducationWatch.
Robert Huberty
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October Publications Now Online
Capital Research Center’s October publications have been posted. They are: Organization Trends Demonizing Subprime Lenders: Liberal Groups Oppose Consumer Choice By Melanie Sans and Matthew Vadum When…
Matthew Vadum
Foundation Watch
Media Matters for America
Byron York’s National Review column today takes a look at the moneymen behind the 501(c)(3) charitable group Media Matters, which is helping to coordinate the Senate Democrats’ effort to get Rush Limbaugh’s…
Robert Huberty
Foundation Watch
“Naming Rights”: Reworking an Old Fundraising Gimmick
Today’s New York Sun reports that Barnard College aims to raise $20 million by selling on its website the naming rights to a new campus building. Ebay for higher ed.
Robert Huberty
Labor Watch
I Guess It’s Not Plagiarism
for former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to recycle his old columns, but you’d think the Los Angeles Times would be disturbed to know that the Reich op-ed that it…
Robert Huberty
Foundation Watch
Is Harvard a Charity?
The title of this op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times suggests that Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, is criticizing philanthropy directed toward Harvard and other institutions that he calls “culture palaces.” Charity…
Robert Huberty
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Classical Education in the News
Over the years Capital Research Center’s best-selling book has been “Classical Education” by Gene Veith and Andrew Kern. Their book is an overview of the movement to introduce a “Great Books”-style…
Robert Huberty
Organization Trends
John Berthoud, Rest In Peace
At a Capital Research Center reception on June 20, 2007. Left to right: DonorsTrust executive director Whitney Ball, NTU development director Sara Salupo, and John Berthoud. (photo…
Matthew Vadum