Who Funds That? EP13: Organizing the DSA Revolution

Who Funds That? EP13: Organizing the DSA Revolution

You’ve heard quite a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing faction that has surged to victories in Democratic Party primary elections across the country. But how did what was as recently as the early 2010s a marginal player on the radical-left of American politics become power brokers who can drive their candidates to major political offices? Joining us is Sean Speer of the Manhattan Institute joins us to analyze these dynamics. City Journal: How the Far Left Captured the Democratic Party [https://www.city-journal.org/article/democrats-socialism-colorado-new-york-primary] CRC: Communism and the Democratic Socialists of America [https://capitalresearch.org/article/communism-and-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/] CRC: The Anti-American Left: Democratic Socialists of America [https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-anti-american-left-part-3/]

Who Funds That? EP12: Trump Can Say "You're Fired"

The Supreme Court has issued its rulings, and with big decisions on citizenship, transgender athletes, and congressional redistricting, a major case with significant impacts on policy may fly under the radar. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court ruled that the President has the power to dismiss members of multi-member federal boards like the Federal Trade Commission regardless of Congressional attempts to restrict the dismissal power to specific conditions. That will affect, among other things, labor-relations law, because the National Labor Relations Board is one of these multi-member boards almost certainly affected by the ruling. With President Trump also having nominated Kieth Sonderling as permanent Secretary of Labor, where will the Slaughter ruling and the new labor secretary take labor policy (and other economic policy, with other affected boards)? Joining us to discuss these questions is Akash Chougule of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity [https://freopp.org/] FREOPP: Americans need opportunity abundance [https://freopp.org/oppblog/americans-need-opportunity-abundance/] CRC: Leadership Change at the Labor Department [https://capitalresearch.org/article/leadership-change-at-the-labor-department/] SCOTUS Blog: Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner and overturns major restraint on presidential power  [https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-allows-trump-to-fire-ftc-commissioner-and-overturns-major-restraint-on-presidential-power/]

Who Funds That? EP11: What to Make of AI Opposition

Artificial intelligence: what does it mean? Is it taking all the water? Is it taking all the jobs? Are foreign interests, radical socialists, and cynical AI companies misleading the public about what AI is doing to America? Our colleague Parker Thayer joins us to discuss. Parker Thayer on X [https://x.com/ParkerThayer/status/2067740118035669472?s=20] Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers [https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/conservatives-protest-ai-data-centers] InfluenceWatch Podcast #385: Effective Altruism, AI, and Shrimp Welfare [https://capitalresearch.org/article/influencewatch-podcast-385-effective-altruism-ai-and-shrimp-welfare/] Dustin Moskovitz [https://www.influencewatch.org/person/dustin-moskovitz/] Anthropic [https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/anthropic/] OpenAI [https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/openai/]

Who Funds That? EP10: The Experts Weigh in on Fixing Higher Ed

Today’s higher education is not your grandfather’s higher education. Indeed, it’s not even the higher education of my first run through it in the 90s, before the pervasive embrace of DEI and critical race theory, before the extreme ideological disparities that led to a decrease in the study of traditional humanities and an increase in the study of social justice issues, and before the pernicious threats to independent thought and free speech that led to a recent wave of rampant antisemitism at some of the America’s most prestigious institutions. The threats facing higher education and, more broadly, civil society have arisen relatively quickly, and the question now is: can anything be done to fix what ails higher education in the same rapid timeframe? As universities grow richer and more administratively bloated and students become less educated and more ideologically indoctrinated, are there answers from inside the institutions, or is it going to take choices made by outside influences like governments, donors, and parents to get higher ed back to its mission of educating America’s young people to be productive American citizens? A new book of essays from The Heritage Foundation, written by preeminent education scholars, titled “Higher Education in America: It’s Worse Than You Think [https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-America-Worse-Think/dp/1641775424],” seeks to answer some of these questions. One of those scholars, Jonathan Butcher [https://www.heritage.org/staff/jonathan-butcher], Acting Director for Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, joins us today.

Who Funds That? EP9: Poisoned Ivies with Rep. Elise Stefanik

Since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, the Everything Leftist Omnicause has turned its Eye of Sauron toward aggressive support for Palestinian nationalism—support for Palestinian nationalism that all too frequently crosses the line from a political position to antipathy towards American Jews. Nowhere has the latter been more visible than on the most elite college campuses, where administrations that have been perfectly happy to suppress speech they didn’t like about mainstream political issues have allowed Palestinian nationalist demonstrators to impose their wills on campus. Today’s guest used her position to ask the presidents of three of America’s most prestigious universities how that came to be; the resulting incoherent responses started a firestorm that culminated in her new book, Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities. Joining us today to discuss higher education and the rot within it is U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York. Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities [https://www.amazon.com/Poisoned-Ivies-Academic-Americas-Universities/dp/1668087537] Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) Questions University Presidents on Antisemitism [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtAZBvmzcQ] The Universities That Don’t Understand Academic Freedom [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/harvard-mit-upenn-free-speech-congressional-hearings/676278/] Elise Stefanik’s new book ‘Poisoned Ivies’ highlights the dangerous extremism in higher education [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4564050/elise-stefaniks-new-book-recounts-the-dangerous-extremism-in-higher-education/]