higher education

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #245: Legalities of Student Loan Forgiveness
A few months ago, President Joe Biden announced that the government would “forgive” up to $10,000 per borrower in federal student loan debt with at best dubious legal justification, with…
by Michael Watson on November 18, 2022

Organization Trends
George Soros and Teachers Unions Behind Biden’s Radical Title IX Changes
The Biden Administration was recently handed a temporary defeat by Federal District Court Judge Charles Atchley, when he blocked the Education Department’s latest Title IX guidance regulations. This injunction is…
by Parker Thayer on July 18, 2022

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Notre Dame Law School’s Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Part 2 of 2)
Professor Mayer, a scholar of nonprofit and election law, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about past and potential future cross-ideological overlap in the critique of establishment philanthropy, non-exempt vehicles for wealthy…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 21, 2022

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Notre Dame Law School’s Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Part 1 of 2)
Notre Dame Law School Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a scholar of nonprofit and election law, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about what should and shouldn’t be considered a subsidy for charities,…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 21, 2022

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Three Woke Advantages
The most important fact about woke cancellation is that it rarely if ever arises from individual action. Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Corporate America
Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided and abetted by the labor unions, enforce the ideological line. Institutions that have not purged dissenters have…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: The Left’s Ultimate Weapon
Even the institutional supports that the Left enjoy would not be enough to turn courage into casualties without powerful weapons. When action against a primary target is ineffective, woke groups…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Forced by the Government
Where private action has not yet forced compliance with woke ideology, our adversaries bring the power of the state to bear. Unencumbered by notions of constitutional propriety, federalism, or local-state…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Philanthropy
Effort to Reduce Tax on Income of Elite Higher-Education Endowments Dropped
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives’ Rules Committee released a version of H.R. 5376, styled as the Build Back Better Act, quietly eliminating an earlier-included provision that would have…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 17, 2021

Philanthropy
Enchanted with the Elitist of Exempt Endowments
Many have seen implications for the underlying legal structure and practice of American philanthropy in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017’s excise tax on the investment income…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 5, 2021