A Mandate for Labor Error: Strange Bedfellows
A Mandate for Labor Error Statism from the Right | Big Labor Radicalizes Strange Bedfellows | Coming to Policy at Last…
environmental social governance (ESG)
A Mandate for Labor Error: Coming to Policy at Last
Project 2025 did not fully abandon the policies of the Taft-Hartley consensus. The document rejects the Biden administration–Big Labor approach to expanding union power and membership. But the worst proposal…
A Mandate for Labor Error: Conclusion
The Taft-Hartley consensus—making union membership voluntary, subjecting unions to government oversight, and protecting consumers and the economy from labor strife—worked. It apparently worked so well that conservatives forgot why they…
Facebook’s ESG Agenda Went Down to Georgia (and Trashed a Trophy Fishing Lake)
Meta, the parent firm of Facebook, was in the media promoting its environmental, social and governance virtues in December 2021. That preening didn’t end well for the company this month after…
Best of CRC Media Hits for the First Quarter of 2023
The first quarter of 2023 has been fruitful for CRC. Through January, February, and March (and early April), we had over 140 media hits, including traditional media, new media, TV,…
Follow the Money
Conservative philanthropy in America has long been on the defensive, mostly against harsh critiques from liberals and progressives. For big grantmakers on the Right criticism has been considered a given.
InfluenceWatch Podcast 266: ESG in 2023
If the “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—movement had a guiding text, it would the Proxy Preview. Put out by the corporate social responsibility investing nonprofit As You Sow, the Proxy Preview…
The Proxy Preview: ESG in 2023
At least 542 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) shareholder resolutions have been filed thus far in 2023. This already exceeds the total number filed in all of 2021 and appears…
Sustainable Development: Sustainability
Sustainable development is found at the intersection of the three “Es” of economy, environment and (social) equity. It implies government restraint of economic growth to limit the depletion of natural…
Sustainable Development: Origins
Like most, if not all, left-of-center agendas, the sustainable development concept has been with us a long time. Developed slowly and stealthily and thus largely unnoticed, the ideas began to…