Organized Labor Is a Dubious Ally for Conservatives
American business, long the key funder and rock-ribbed ally of the Republican Party and the conservative movement that uses the GOP as its imperfect electoral vehicle, now seems captive to…
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CRC’s 2021 Year in Review
In 2021, Capital Research Center’s ironclad research exposed power-seeking influencers and helped citizens reclaim their freedom. Our work was featured in seven new books released last year—on everything from the…
Comments on ESG Factors in ERISA Retirement Plans
The Capital Research Center (CRC) submitted comments to the Employee Benefits Security Administration, noting concerns with how the agency’s proposed rule “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising…
Woke Capitalism
In this age of cancelation, corporate American has become increasingly political—or gone “woke” in current parlance. American corporations are certainly under many types of pressure from all directions, but why…
Woke Capitalism in Woke, Inc.
Those wishing to understand the currents pushing the swell of liberal sociopolitical activism by American big business—“woke capitalism”—should read Vivek Ramaswamy’s new book Woke, Inc. As the author puts it,…
Can “Woke” Boardroom Culture Be Broken?
Hollywood has been at the vanguard of a new push from corporate America—including sports leagues, retail products and platforms, and even shareholders—to ignore that pithy truth: Adopt political positions and…
Best of CRC Media Hits for April 2021
We broke new ground in April 2021: Capital Research Center president Scott Walter was quoted in the New York Times as part of reporter Ken Vogel’s expose on Swiss billionaire…
Establishment Philanthropy’s Labor Market, and Its Professional Monoculture
Capital, if the capitalist controls enough market power to constitute a monopoly, extracts returns from the market above the marginal cost of producing the product or service he or she…