The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
Sheldon Whitehouse
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Hard Left Turns
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Dark Roads Through Arabella
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
The Radical Origins of Black Lives Matter
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, joins Mark Bauerlein the podcast to discuss “dark money” and his First Things article, The Founders of Black Lives Matter, and the…
Best of CRC Media Hits for June 2021
Congress is out of session for a bit and Washington, DC is quieter and less busy – but there’s still an edge; a white-noise rumbling that fills the air that…
Ludwig Discusses Dark Money Behind Election Intimidation Tactics on OANN
On OANN, Hayden Ludwig discusses the Left's use of “dark money” both as a term to criticize spending by conservative and moderate groups that the Left doesn’t like and as…
Sheldon Whitehouse Searches for More Traitors
Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced he would begin a “new series of Senate floor speeches . . . exposing the scheme by right-wing donor interests to…
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and the Ford Foundation’s Socialists
In an appearance a couple of weeks ago on the Strict Scrutiny podcast, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) was worrying over one of his favorite topics: the alleged lopsided advantage of…
Highlights from Scott Walter’s Answers to Questions for the Record from Sen. Whitehouse
“It is immoral for government to force citizens’ support of public causes to be made known to persons—in government and outside it—who would use the information to harass those citizens,”…
An Exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse over Forced Donor Disclosure
A few days after CRC president Scott Walter testified in a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Whitehouse sent a letter to CRC and two other nonprofits, asking…