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.
California
What’s Wrong with Ethnic Studies?
In 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation requiring all California high school students to complete Ethnic Studies by the 2025–2026 school year. This divisive new course is riddled with social…
Oakland, California: High Crime, High Energy Prices, and a Lot of Left-Wing Nonprofits
Oakland, California, is home to a disproportionate share of America’s stridently left-wing nonprofits. Twenty-six of the most strident examples have a combined annual revenue of more than $566 million. That…
The California Teachers Association and the $2.5 Billion Crusade Against Nuclear Power
Bad advice drives bad policy, and one of the Golden State’s great destroyers has been the California Teachers Association (CTA). For example, the CTA cosigned an April 2021 joint letter…
The Unspoken Cause of “California Disease”
Theories of demographic change driving political change are overstated. California is often pointed to as an example, but California was a progressive state, not a red state. Using these theories…
Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: WEIRD
Increasingly, postgraduate education and proximity to cities of major cultural and economic influence define “elite” status more than even money does. Survey research shows that these new elites are radical-to-extremist…