Has anyone written about the impact of the closing of the Olin Foundation in 2005 on the American right? Arguably it was huge.
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Arguably one of the shifts on the right came when Olin money was supplanted by Koch money and Mercer money. Compare the Olin New Criterion of 1980s (genuinely high-brow) with the more partisan & coarser New Criterion of nowhttps://thebaffler.com/latest/decline-of-the-new-criterion-ganz …
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They opened up an engineering college. I wonder what happened to it. I once had an Olin fellowship at Harvard.
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super weird, but that would have been the other Olin foundation
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Thanks for the heads up. Damned if it isn’t.
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iirc it had a big influence through support of the law-and-economics movement?
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Olin shut down by design. John M. Olin believed that a donor's intent cannot anticipate what will happen more than two decades beyond their lifetimes. More importantly, he feared that Olin would become liberal like Ford Foundation. https://observer.com/2005/05/olin-foundation-rightwing-tank-snuffing-itself/ …
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Olin's intent was to build out the conservative political and intellectual infrastructure, then let new donors who knew what was happening in their lifetimes take over, either to fund the groups Olin financed or start new ones. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/politics/goals-reached-donor-on-right-closes-up-shop.html …
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