InfluenceWatch Podcast #375: Revisiting Episode #348 with Corey DeAngelis
Ed. Note: Michael Watson is on vacation this week, so in honor of the birth of a new school year, we’re re-upping a past episode on school choice and how…
Big Government
The Goose, the Gander, and Green Bay
“Swamp” is perhaps the most-familiar metaphor for the national capital city, where so much power—existing and desired, institutional and personal—resides. As part of “draining it,” some conservatives have suggested that…
A Conversation with John Ehrett (Part 1 of 2)
During a panel discussion about the strained and deteriorating relationship between conservatism and corporations at the National Conservatism conference last July in Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill staff attorney and writer John…
Meet The Dark Money Network Quietly Transforming America
To the outside observer, Arabella Advisors is nothing more than an accounting and human resources firm that helps charities get things done, not a billion-dollar political influence operation helping leftists…
A Conversation With Economist Arnold Kling (Part 1 of 2)
MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling is a cerebral polymath who brings hands-on experience in government, a calm demeanor, and clearly expressed, reasonable thought to the public discourse. Kling was kind enough to…
A Conversation with Economist Arnold Kling (Part 2 of 2)
MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling is a cerebral polymath who brings hands-on experience in government, a calm demeanor, and clearly expressed, reasonable thought to the public discourse. Kling was kind enough to…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
A Conversation With Liberty Lost Author Robert E. Wright (Part 1 of 2)
The American Institute for Economic Research senior research fellow talks with Michael E. Hartmann about his research, why Tocquevillian voluntary association became such a beneficial part of America’s social contract,…
A Conversation With Liberty Lost Author Robert E. Wright (Part 2 of 2)
The American Institute for Economic Research senior research fellow talks with Michael E. Hartmann about the perverse incentives of the tax system on nonprofits, what hypothetically would happen to the…
Donor-Advised Funds And The Myth Of An Independent Sector
America’s professional philanthropic class often declares that democracy is reliant on independent philanthropy when it pleads for tax and other special privileges for itself and its patrons. Private philanthropy, the…