From New Deal liberalism in the 1930s to the academic culture wars of the 1980s and the rise of Donald Trump, how white fears of losing power led to philanthropy that openly discouraged discussions of race and diversity. African Americans’ demand for the expansion of civil rights fuelled the eventual creation of a “conservative labyrinth” of philanthropy foundations, think tanks …
Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, a critic of “Big Tech,” has been named a top economic advisor to the Biden White House. “Forty years of weak antimonopoly policy has led to such extreme concentration,” Zephyr Teachout of Fordham Law School told the House antitrust subcommittee last April, “that case-by-case efforts will not lead to decentralization quickly enough. “ She …
Coast-to-coast and around the world, sighs of relief could be heard after the Trump administration threw in the towel, more or less, on its refusal to allow President-elect Joe Biden to begin the presidential transition. — Randi Spivak, Center for Biological Diversity As my colleague Doyle McManus reports, much of Trump’s last-minute policymaking appears aimed at bequeathing Biden a scorched-earth …
The most familiar observation about the human reaction to abject terror is the one stating that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” We’re about to see how that aphorism applies in modern American politics. And many who sounded the siren about the economic drag of government deficits and the national debt are saying, “Never mind.” Here’s White House economic advisor …
