civil rights

Book Profile
Philanthropy in (as Self-Defined, a “Transformative”) Solidarity
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…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 15, 2024

Philanthropy
Thought Experiment: Post-Fearless Fund, A World of Philanthropy Without Grant Contracts
During the months leading up to June 2023’s Supreme Court decisions finding race-conscious college admissions to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, some in establishment philanthropy forward-lookingly…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 21, 2024

Commentary
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2024
In 1983, Congress passed the bill creating a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on the third Monday of January. The federal holiday was first observed on January 20,…
by CRC Staff on January 15, 2024

Featured Items
Capital Research, January 2023
In the January 2023 issue of “Capital Research,” Al Gore has a remarkable 30-year record of being wrong on climate and the environment. The World Economic Forum cheerleads for COVID-19…
by CRC Staff on March 27, 2023

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Waging a Good War: Tortured Thesis
Those with little or no background in that history can gain it from Waging a Good War. The writing isn’t awful when it sticks to the story, rather than the…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

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Waging a Good War: He Is Writing This Because . . .
Rick's military history approach comes off as just a vehicle to score some historical and contemporary points. For example, he wrote, “The same antidemocratic faction of American life that opposed…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

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Waging a Good War: The Army of One
The clumsy military clichés and analogies in Waging a Good War also caused Ricks to veer into incongruous criticisms of the individuals who waged the good war. In one example,…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

Organization Trends
Federally Funded Groups Targeting Republican Governors over School Mask Policies
In a profound display of Orwellian doublespeak, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently announced a lawsuit in favor of restricting civil liberties. The lawsuit was filed against the state…
by Parker Thayer on August 31, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Lost causes
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] I was a child in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. One day in 1961, a bus…
by Dr. Steven J. Allen on July 1, 2015