InfluenceWatch Friday
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Philanthropy and The Man Who Invented Conservatism
Frank S. Meyer is “the American credited as the founder of the Communist student movement in the United Kingdom,” according to Daniel J. Flynn’s introduction of his magnificent biography of Meyer.
Buckley and Buckley Offer Insights for Philanthropy from Founding Funding Plan for National Review
As young William F. Buckley, Jr., and others were working to launch National Review in 1955, it “needed backers and donors.” Buckley and former Time editor Willi Schlamm, who helped persuade him to start…
CRC Mourns the Loss of a Conservative Giant—Ed Feulner, Founder of the Heritage Foundation
Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr., a good friend and adviser to Capital Research Center, passed away on Friday, July 18, at age 83. Ed Feulner was a founder of the…
BEST OF 2024
Politicized, Progressive Big Philanthropy
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
Recent Books, Mostly By Liberals Or Progressives, Presciently Critiquing Progressive Philanthropy’s Effects
“By the Trump years, the Democratic party blob was collectively better coordinated, more politically focused, and much butter funded than ever before. Law, technology, and political polarization all came together…
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…
A Conversation with John Ehrett (Part 2 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…
Capital Research, May/June 2024
In the May/June 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, ProPublica weaponizes investigative journalism, the Marguerite Casey Foundation goes radical, Vesta brings home the green-energy pork from the Inflation Reduction Act,…
A Conversation with The Upheaval’s N. S. Lyons (Part 1 of 2)
At his great Substack newsletter, The Upheaval, and elsewhere, the pseudonymous N. S. Lyons’ wide-ranging, historically informed, and insightful writing examines that which has given rise to three simultaneous revolutions…