InfluenceWatch Friday
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higher education
InfluenceWatch Podcast #325: America’s Enemies Funding Universities?
How did universities become dens of sympathy for ideologies and factions implacably opposed to America and her allies, most recently demonstrated by the “Hamas glamper” protests at various elite campuses?…
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…
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Polling the Elites
Scott Rasmussen and CtUP have surveyed a very specific population highly predisposed to hard progressivism. But this is still an important population, despite its being only approximately 1 percent of…
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: What Makes an Elite?
If WEIRD leftism is generated not by money but by the status-generating institutions of American life, this creates a problem for the Right. To obtain public office, positions in government…
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: The Elites and California Disease
Because of the outsize influence of the Golden State on American culture and the outsize influence of the presidency—especially the presidency of conservative Californian Ronald Reagan—on national politics, many think…
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Whither the Counter-Elite?
Whichever elite class resists the temptation of California Disease is going to have a big advantage in claiming the future.
Campus Protests Backed by Hamas-Tied Organizations
Ryan Mauro joined The Glenn Beck Program to discuss how the anti-Israel protests plaguing college campuses appear to be backed by organizations that support Hamas. At least 100 terrorism-tied organizations…
A Conversation with University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Part 1 of 2)
There is “a pretty compelling case that” the nonprofit sector is “just an unregulated area with a lot of money sloshing around in a very tax-favored” environment—“and actually not just…
A Conversation with University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Part 2 of 2)
Reynolds discusses the folly of tax-incentivized support of America’s ruling-class elites, including its philanthropic ones, and what to consider doing about it. On philanthropy more largely, “anytime you get lots…