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Academic programming is the crux of Charles Koch's "integrated strategy" for pro-corporate political change.

The Association for Private Enterprise Education  (APEE) self-describes as “an association of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry with a common interest in studying and supporting the system of private enterprise.”

Our recent recordings of the APEE 2016 conference included several Koch moderated panels and many Koch-funded professors confirm their role in the "integrated strategy"

Several professors spoke far-too candidly, about how to “take over” curriculum, majors, and hiring, and about using the classroom as “primarily as recruitment grounds” for Koch's liberty movement.

Speaking to room full of professors, the Koch foundation's Charlie Rugerwas clear, “we want these great ideas of the APEE network to be applied, the way we think about it at least, across sort of anintegrated structure of production for culture change,” to include “arranging state legislative testimony to make sure that, you know, these kinds of ideas have a seat on the table in public policy.”

SEE THE 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BY UNIVERSITY.

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Charles Koch's Neo-Confederate Network

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Created on March 20, 2018. Last updated on September 24, 2018.

Koch and the Radical Austrians

We believe that understanding the Charles Koch Foundation’s material support for, and ideological confluence with, a network of Neo-Confederate and white nationalist scholars is integral to understanding the Koch-network’s past and present efforts to resegregate our nation’s schools, dismantle voting rights, and expand the prison industrial complex -- all at the expense of people of color.

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“Mike DeBow of the Alabama AGs office and co-author of the Task Force reportpresented the results of that report in a paper to the Association for Private Enterprise Education (APEE)weekend before last. He has agreed to have The Heartland Institute, an Illinois-based policy group with which we work, publish a 24-page summary of the report/paper as a policy study.This will be released late next week, with a distribution of at least 3000 (half journalists, the remainder state Constitutional officers and business types) . Heartland would be willing to do a full run of 10,000 (which would include every state legislator and Member of Congress) if they can get the funding for the 7000 differential . I am getting faxed later what this will cost ... . and I think we should consider this.” IRS-5L The reader might compare that with Heartland claims from 2000:2}:

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Exposing the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE)

Charles Koch’s Network of Weaponized Professors

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In 2016, UnKoch My Campus made recordings at the annual conference of a Koch funded academic association, theAssociation for Private Enterprise Education. This included several Koch moderated panels where Koch-funded professors confirm their role in the "integrated strategy," and describe the lengths they go in order to advance this strategy.

Several professors spoke far-too candidly, about how to “take over” curriculum, majors, and hiring, and about using the classroom as “primarily as recruitment grounds” for Koch's liberty movement.

Speaking to room full of professors, the Koch foundation's Charlie Ruger was clear, “we want these great ideas of the APEE network to be applied, the way we think about it at least, across sort of an integrated structure of production for culture change,” to include “arranging state legislative testimony to make sure that, you know, these kinds of ideas have a seat on the table in public policy.”

See the 2016 conference program and a list of participants. Find our recordings and full transcripts here:

“Being an Intellectual Entrepreneur” April 4, 2016

“Successful Models of Programs in Private Enterprise” April 5, 2016

“Establishing a Successful Academic Center” April 5 2016

"Being a Liberty-Advancing Academic” April 4, 2016

“Scholarship at the Crossroads of Policy and Academia” April 5, 2016

Featured Session:

“Being an Intellectual Entrepreneur”

Panelists*:

Brennan Brown - Charles Koch Foundation (Session Chair),

George Crowley - Troy University,

Chris Surprenant - University of New Orleans,

Derek Yonai - Florida Southern College,

Joshua Hall - West Virginia University

(Full Transcript*)

At the 2016 meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Brennan Brown from the Charles Koch Foundation moderated a panel of professors from Koch funded university centers called “Being an Intellectual Entrepreneur (or Edupreneur).”

Dr. George Crowley from Troy University’s Manley Johnson Center described how a Koch’s donor partnership was able to “take over” curriculum, majors, and hiring at Troy, and how faculty have been using it as “recruitment grounds” for the liberty movement. He highlighted how Troy faculty engage in Alabama policy “fights,” including an attempt to “bring down the state pension system” and to address the “teacher union’s influence.”

In another panel, Troy’s Steve Miller described getting “more directly involved in state politics,” about to hire their second policy analyst for an office they’ve opened at Troy’s campus in the capital, Montgomery, and how faculty have already had “an audience with the governor’s staff” and with “different groups of legislators.”

The Manuel Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy university was founded by the Charles Koch Foundation, BB&T, and partner donor Manley Johnson. Johnson was identified as a participant in Koch’s 2010 donor summit.

Derek Yonai from Florida Southern College elaborated on how academic programming is designed to recruit for “the liberty movement” (identified as FEE, IHS, KIP, and KAP), acknowledging how “some people outsource to Students for Liberty” for recruitment. Yonai also details how he singles out students “who don’t fit in,” recruiting “footsoldiers” in a “fight for economic freedom,”

Troy professors described how they use accreditation to leverage their presence on campus. The Johnson Center’s new director, Steve Miller, presented a talk entitled “How to leverage University and Faculty Resources” which encouraged “liberty advancing academics” to attain higher administrative roles like dean and provost, and to find ways to capitalize on open tenure-track hiring lines and endowed professorships. Dr. Josh Hall from West Virginia University generalizes, saying “I want co opt resources,” and get “as many people on the state of West Virginia resources as possible.”

Chris Surprenant from the University of New Orleans described how their escalating high school programming allows him to develop and filter students as early as “the admissions office,” and how he uses affirmative action to their “advantage.” Several panelists made use of language used in Koch’s Market Based Management, like “mental model.” Dr. Yonai specifically refers to his current practice of MBM principles of “local knowledge.” The Johnson Center openly seeks to integrate MBM as part of Troy’s professional programs.

*First published May 2016, republished December 2018.

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regular readers of the denier roundup know this already, but former journalist John Stossels is now a leading disinformation producer, regularly featuring fake experts who just-so-happen to be, like Stossel, all Koch’d up.

By Climate Denier Roundup

But today’s COP, Look, Listen provides some new information on Stossel’s conflicts of interest and his latest high-traction disinformation video, which “racked up_{803k views / 60k likes on YouTube}_, 674k views / 23k interactions on FB, and909k view / 21k like on Twitter, where it was also the second most-shared post in the ‘anti-green tech’ narrative. In addition, it is being circulated as text via the Koch-funded disinfo media system, with Reason,the Daily Caller andthe Daily Signal all publishing the piece as op-eds.”

The video was “the first in a series” attacking Electric Vehicles, and “featuresMark Mills of theManhattan Institute, who Stossel fails to disclose has received over $1.3 million from Koch foundations since 2014 – see tax filings of Charles Koch Foundation and Charles Koch Institute for further detail. John Stossel’s brother Thomas is also a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.”

Unsurprisingly, “the 5-minute segment is rife with already-debunked disinformation. Mills claims that it takes mining ‘500,000 pounds’ of minerals to produce an EV battery, a point that has been comprehensively fact-checkedby AFP andUSA Today. He also alleges that the adoption of 500 million EVs would only ‘reduce world oil consumption by about 10%.’ The roughly 16 million EVs on the road already have reduced oil demand by 3.5% in total, so 500 million would certainly lower emissions by more than an additional 6.5%.”

Stossel and Mills want viewers to think EVs are no cleaner than fossil fueled cars, but “Argonne National Laboratoryproduced a model and have a whole page set upto do exactly this calculation. They found that EVs generally emit far less carbon over a 12-year lifespan.'[ani grx]

what’s more, “even in a coal-only grid, EVs come out better for the environment than diesel or petrol alternatives. In addition, a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists found that over their lifetime, EVs produce 50 percent less Greenhouse Gasses than gas or diesel cars. No matter where in the US, an average EV is cleaner than an average gas car, and for 90% of Americans the average EV is better than even the most efficient gas alternative.”

Whoops!

Surely Stossel’s failure to do any sort of journalistic fact-checking of his guest was just an innocent mistake, right?

Perhaps! Maybe Stossel deserves the benefit of the doubt, those of you more kind and forgiving than us may suggest. But consider Stossel’s history, and see if you’re still feeling generous:

Failure to disclose financial conflicts of interest is the norm for Stossel’s content and guests. In 2017, when his company JFS Productions was revealed as a top contractor of the Charles Koch Institute, a syndicated op-ed defended the Koch family from public criticism. In 2022, a two-part video series from Stosel featured Johan Norberg (senior fellow at the Cato Institute) and Texas Tech University professor Ben Powell, who is among those involved in a controversial department that has received over $6.5 million from the Charles Koch Foundation. Powell is also an officer of the Koch-funded Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE:(style="background-color:#ff6600ff"):}::{).

In 2019, a Stossel_{video}_ was critically fact checked, prompting him to unsuccessfully sue Facebook for defamation. The video featured a panel consisting entirely of professional climate disinformers affiliated with the Cato Institute, the CO2 Coalition, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute and the Manhattan Institute.

Stossle’s “Center for Independent Thought” is also totally dependent on the same funders of the groups whose representatives he promotes as “other recent donors to Stossel’s Center for Independent Thought include,” Cato and CEI funding Claws Foundation, Cato, CEI and Heartland funding  JP Humphreys Foundation, Cato and Manhattan funding  Jewish Communal Fund, Cato, CO2 Coalition, CEI, Heartland and Manhattan Institute funding DonorsTrust, and Cat, CO2 Coalition and Manhattan Institute funding Thomas W. Smith Foundation.

Those funders, according to the bulletin, “plus the Charles Koch Foundation, gave a combined total of $1,494,688 to Stossel’s Center from 2019-2020, worth 40% of its $3,783,057 revenue in that two-year period.”

So while “Stossel tries to maintain his image as a reporter, and judging by his large audience across platforms is largely succeeding in that goal. The content itself, however, is far from adhering to journalistic standards from both a factual, ethical and financial standpoint, and should be exposed at every possible opportunity.”

Normally “exposing yourself” is considered a bad thing, but in this context, it’s about the most ethical thing Stossel could do, and the only way to regain any sense of credibility if he actually wanted to be a journalist again.

(Originally appeared at DailyKos)

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Climate Science Denial on Koch-Funded Campuses

Of primary concern to Greenpeace is evidence of professors in Koch-funded university departments denying the science of climate change. Some universities that are threatened to be staffed or controlled by known financiers of climate “skepticism” or play roles in Koch’s political campaigns against climate policies.

FSU – Climate Denial Econ 101

Professor James Gwartney at Florida State University co-authored a textbook calledEconomics: Private and Public Choice. This “widely used” textbook has been criticized for six years straight by Ph.D economist Yoram Bauman formisrepresenting the science of climate change – a field well outside of the authors’ credentialed experience. Since 2010, when Dr. Bauman began ranking economics textbooks that include climate change back, Gwartney et al. have not only ranked dead-last every time, but have made little progress in updating the inaccurate and false assertions made in their widely-used textbook.

Three authors of Economics: Private and Public Choice have overlapping connections to Koch-funded universities and political groups.

Ironically, the 2008 and 2013 contracts between Koch and FSU were signed by former president Eric Barron, a climate scientist who is now president of Penn State University, which has received $74,500 from Charles Koch since 2008.

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