John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:
- Should conservatives support leftist institutions?
In A Time to Build, the conservative thinker Yuval Levin proposes that Americans recommit to civic and public institutions as a way of fixing the malaise in politics and corralling populist energy. But for conservatives, Levin's approach creates a Catch-22: Recommitting to institutions would mean strengthening the very entities that the Left has captured. To succeed, this approach would require a multi-decade campaign to retake control of these entities, as CRC's Michael Watson warns here.
- Is the Left's "cure" for unaffordable housing worse than the disease?
An increasingly vocal and well-heeled segment of the Left is calling for dramatic changes to America's housing sector. Overlapping networks of activist groups are using the COVID-19 crisis to push for socialized housing in the United States. Among other things, they call for a government-sponsored "homes guarantee." CRC's Robert Stilson exposes who is funding and pushing this latest attack on freedom here.
- The Left is making a list. Who's on it?
The left-wing "watch dog" group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has launched the Tech Transparency Project to "find out which groups get big tech funding." In essence, the Left is making a list and gonna find out who's naughty or nice, as CRC's Sarah Lee reports here.
- How "woke" is Big Philanthropy?
Big Philanthropy is definitely woke. Yet Big Philanthropy, along with individual billionaires and multibillion-dollar institutional endowments in higher education, is unpopular and under attack. The Council on Foundations is trying (and failing) to satisfy the demands of the woke social warriors. This weakness in leadership and mission just may create an opening to change establishment philanthropy for the better, as Michael Hartmann suggests here.
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What Is Dark Money and Is It Bad?
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There's a lot of talk in Washington about "dark money." Activists on the left use the term to paint conservatives as funders of dirty backroom politics. But is dark money really the scourge of transparent politics? And is it only used by the Right?
The answer to both questions is "no."
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InfluenceWatch Podcast 183
The Redistributionist Right
In this episode: In an op-ed at National Review, CRC's Research Director Mike Watson raised serious questions about the agenda and ultimate goal of the ostensibly conservative group American Compass, led by Oren Cass. Cass is promoting a conservative embrace of unions while taking a great deal of money from lefty funders like the Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network. Watson's article responded to a Wall Street Journal op-ed Cass penned back in September, when he argued that a reformed version of unionism could advance conservative goals. Watson is skeptical, and Cass expressed his displeasure on social media.
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