The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
Despite liberal claims about a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” to confirm constitutional originalists to federal courts—fueled by rivers of “dark money” from conservative donors—it’s the Left, not the Right that has…
(PDF here) Conservatives may not approve of many of the causes that former billionaire Charles Feeney has given money to over the years, but they would agree that he…