Big Philanthropy’s Lost Children
Brooke Orr, the protagonist of Rumaan Alam’s captivating recent novel, Entitlement, lands what she thinks is a great new job as a program officer at a big New York philanthropic foundation. The…
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Goose, the Gander, and Green Bay
“Swamp” is perhaps the most-familiar metaphor for the national capital city, where so much power—existing and desired, institutional and personal—resides. As part of “draining it,” some conservatives have suggested that…
More Overstatement Of “The Powell Memo’s” Role
Mehrsa Baradaran’s new The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America joins many other histories in citing “the Powell memo” as an important part of their narratives. In the case of The Quiet Coup,…
Philanthropy and the Campus Wars—and Later, the Larger Culture War—in Resistance from the Right
“Conservatives did not win the campus wars of the 1960s, and they failed in almost every way to meaningfully pull faculty and students to the right during their time on…
Ken Starr, School-Choice Legal Champion
Obituaries for Ken Starr, who died last Tuesday, understandably will highlight his role in the Whitewater investigation that eventually led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in December 1998.
Guidance for Philanthropic Decision-Makers from Wild Problems
Since the Progressive Era, Big Philanthropy’s legitimacy to pursue its social and policy agendas has largely been based on its oft-invoked, well-credentialed, and data-driven expertise. Many business-oriented, conservative grantmakers have…
Conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen
Beginning in the 1990s, the conservative Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation framed its mission as helping to develop and implement an anti-progressive “New Citizenship” agenda. Victor Davis Hanson’s new…
Telling Lies, Ignoring Truths: Jane Mayer Strikes Again
You can understand why Jane Mayer didn’t call us at Capital Research Center before publishing her latest New Yorker article, even though it references my testimony to the Arizona state…
Pierre S. du Pont IV, R.I.P.
I first met Pete du Pont, who died yesterday, when he was running for president in 1988, after having served as governor of Delaware and in Congress. I was involved…
My “15 Minutes of Fame” Were Really Only One
During his turn to question Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse chose to make a presentation about the influence of conservative “dark money” on the Court, its membership, the cases brought…