Open Society Foundations – Progressive The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. We provide thousands of grants every year through a network of national and regional foundations and offices, funding a vast array of projects—many of… Read More
Top 100 Think Tanks – United States – Penn Libraries – University of Pennsylvania
Top 100 Think Tanks – United States In rank order Brookings Center for Strategic and International Studies Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Heritage Foundation Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) Urban Institute Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Center for American Progress (CAP) Atlantic Council RAND Corporation Hudson Institute Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Belfer… Read More
Top Influential Think Tanks 2021 – Academic Influence
Academic Influence – website This is a copy of Academic Influence’s website – click website for the actual website Top Influential Think Tanks 2021 Whether you’re aware of it or not, think tanks have influenced your life and worldview by advancing policy measures in government, by shaping the media you consume, and even by inventing… Read More
The Partisan Bureaucracy
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By Kimberly A, Strassel – May 11, 2021- Would the IRS violate your privacy to further Democratic policy objectives?….The lesson is that Republicans must realize that Democrats are no longer their only political foe. They face an equally potent and dangerous federal bureaucracy—committed to destroying GOP officials and propelling a liberal agenda. Read More
Antitrust Can’t Bust a Monopoly of Ideas
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By Vivek Ramaswamy – …On the premise of “social responsibility,” Alphabet subsidiary YouTube recently decided to begin removing political videos it deemed untruthful. The site has taken down videos that were critical of Covid-19 lockdown policies in certain states, stifling discourse about the most important scientific and public-policy debate of the year. Facebook’s decision this year to create a corporate politburo of “experts” to determine what types of speech are acceptable on its site is similarly troubling. … For experts and ordinary folks alike, the past teaches us that many of our current beliefs will be proved false, and that determinations of truth are always conditional and probabilistic. Unfettered dialogue isn’t a liberal-arts luxury; it is a necessity for science and democracy. Read More
These excerpts are included to focus attention on how domination of the ideological left in certain segments of the corporate world, especially high tech and social media, may be changing our culture, our politics, and our society.