Richard Mellon Scaife

Book Profile
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,…
by Michael E. Hartmann on June 4, 2024

Philanthropy
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…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 24, 2023

Foundation Watch
Tom Steyer, the New Paladin of the Left
Tom Steyer, the New Paladin of the Left A hedge fund billionaire bets heavily on politics By Neil Maghami, Foundation Watch, August 2014 (PDF here) Summary:  Thomas Steyer’s…
by Neil Maghami on August 8, 2014