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Biden Pledges $3 Billion To Neocolonialist ‘Green Climate Fund’
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vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will send $3 billion to the “Green Climate Fund,” an organization financed by rich countries committed to keeping underdeveloped countries poor and vulnerable. The announcement was made this week at the United Nations (UN) COP28 climate summit in Dubai. This $3 billion comes in addition to the $2 billion the U.S. has already contributed to the fund.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a UN organization that claims to promote “climate action in developing countries.” The GCF collects billions of dollars from developed nations and supposedly invests said funds into green energy projects in poor nations. The organization is known for its lack of public transparency, and its higher-ups have been accused of victimizing employees via abuse of power, racism, sexism, harassment, and inappropriate relationships.
But it isn’t just secrecy and alleged workplace harassment that should worry the American taxpayers who are bankrolling and expanding the GCF. Indeed, the GCF is part of a neocolonialist movement to prevent developing countries from using the life-saving fossil fuels the Western world obtained decades ago.
Contrary to what UN climate cultists would have us believe, green energy is unreliable and insufficient. Additionally, fossil fuels improve the lives of billions of people by providing them with heating, air conditioning, weather warning systems, mass irrigation, and durable buildings. It is largely thanks to fossil fuels that climate-related disaster deaths have reduced by 99 percent compared to 100 years ago.
In his 2018 book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, climatedepot.com founder Marc Morano included a speech delivered by South African development activist Leon Louw at the 2011 UN Climate Conference. During his speech, Louw explained how the GCF is hurting the citizens of poor nations. “Government to government aid is a reward for being better than anyone else at causing poverty,” stated Louw. “It enriches the people who cause poverty. … The UN is saying to poor countries: ‘Those of you who adopt more anti-prosperity, anti-jobs, and anti-growth policies—under the pretense of environmentalism—we will enrich you.’”
According to Louw, crooked leaders in Third World countries, who are supposed to be investing in green energy projects, instead often spend the funds “on themselves, meaning various government projects, creating bigger departments—bigger bureaucracies, it’s called big bureaucratic capture. They build empires, they build conference centers, and they buy political support. They go and distribute the money to communities where they want support and votes.”
“Climate policies have a cost, and these predominantly hurt the poor,” explained Danish political scientist and statistician Bjørn Lomborg in Morano’s book. “So in choosing to spend that $10 billion on renewables, we deliberately end up choosing to leave more than 70 million people in darkness and poverty.”
The UN doesn’t just promote pointless green energy projects and corrupt politicians. Western nations, including the U.S., collectively and purposely conspire to squash fossil fuel energy projects in developing nations. For instance, during the UN’s COP26 conference, 25 wealthy nations pledged to either stop or radically limit financial support for international fossil fuel projects.
Eco-Imperialists Say ‘Let Them Eat Cake’
In his book, Morano recounted how, at the 2002 UN Earth Summit, he asked then-Democratic California governor Jerry Brown if he thought citizens from poor nations did not want to develop economically. Brown responded, “Many do, but it’s not viable … the developed model cannot work without another five planets.”
Likewise, in 2013, then-President Barack Obama told a group of young African leaders during a town hall in South Africa that “If everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
In other words, rich, eco-imperialist countries, like the U.S., have decided poor nations are not allowed to increase their quality of life. “The developed world is denying a billion people of color in the developing world—Asia, Africa, South America—the coal, natural gas, and other carbon-based energy that they need to pull themselves up out of dire poverty, as the wealthy Western world has already done,” wrote Morano. “There is an unmistakable racial component to this: black and brown people are essentially being told they can never be allowed to have the same standard of living [] the predominantly white Western world has enjoyed since the industrial revolution.”
The consequences of green colonialism are dire. “Only one in three Africans has access to electricity,” reports the World Bank, and the limited available electricity tends to be unreliable. In Sub-Saharan Africa, “31 out of 49 countries experience daily power outages.” Meanwhile, the life expectancy in Africa is generally around a decade shorter than in the rest of the world. “No number of solar panels on top of huts made of animal dung is a long-term solution for grinding poverty,” Morano pointed out. “A simple fact needs to be recognized: carbon-based energy has been one of the greatest liberators of mankind.”
Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuelsand Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less, has spent his career explaining how fossil fuels are largely responsible for the developed world’s lower poverty rates, longer life expectancies, and lower infant mortality rates. As Epstein wrote in his book, thanks to fossil fuels, “We don’t take a safe environment and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous environment and make it far safer.”
Not only do COP28 attendees not care about the inhabitants of poor nations, but they also clearly do not care about the environment. By promoting poverty in poor countries, the UN is actively harming the earth because wealthier nations are proven to have cleaner environments and put less strain on natural resources. Moreover, the world’s wealthiest 1 percent account for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66 percent. So, if Kamala Harris and everyone at COP28 actually cared about the planet, they would show it by amending their own behavior. (Perhaps they begin by canceling all future UN climate summits, which attendees travel to every year on private jets).
“This is an administration that brags about equity,” Morano told The Federalist, pointing out the hypocrisy of the “equitable” Biden administration preventing poor countries from benefiting off the fossil fuel energy production we enjoy here in the U.S. “What these poor nations need is free markets, innovation, economic growth, and infrastructure,” Morano added. “They don’t need handouts from people who say, ‘Hey, don’t make the ‘mistakes’ we did as we live our lavish lifestyle.’”
Evita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com.
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“The climate activists look at how everything was done in Covid, without a single bit of a vote under emergency powers, and they want the same thing to happen in climate,” said ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano. “They’re now in the process of trying to ban meat-eating without anyone voting on it. They’re doing it through net-zero regulations, they’re doing it through corporate-government collusion, and they’re trying to ban the gas-powered cars. Again, like Covid, without a vote.”
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following is part of an interview with :{ClimateDepot.com:(style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;text-rendering:optimizelegibility;outline:none !important"):}: founder Marc Morano and Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy, in which they discuss the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Great Reset, Covid, and the future of the West. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com.
Evita Duffy: Hi everyone, this is Evita Duffy, staff writer at The Federalist, and I am joined today by Marc Morano, the founder of ClimateDepot.com and author of “The Green Fraud” and “The Great Reset: Global Elites in the Permanent Lockdown.”
Marc Morano: Thank you, Evita, happy to be here.
ED: So you were in Egypt this last week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27. Can you just explain to us, what are climate reparations? How much is it going to cost us? What did you learn while you were there?
MM: Well, it’s called “COP” because it’s “Conference of Parties,” which is a UN bureaucratic name. It really began when George H.W. Bush went to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and signed the “Rio Earth Treaty,” which literally led to the creation of this UN climate process. So what’s happened over the years is they’re basically saying that the wealthy nations — Europe, United States, Canada, Australia — our use of fossil fuels (i.e., us driving around in SUVs) has created bad weather in Africa and therefore we need to give them reparations for all the bad weather we caused. That’s literally the sales pitch.
The problem with that is twofold. [First,] weather hasn’t gotten worse as CO2 has increased. Oddly, the weather has actually improved. And you can look at this — hurricanes, floods, wildfires, drought, tornadoes, on every climate time scale — 30, 50, 100 years — there’s either no trend in these bad weather extremes or there’s a declining trend. And how they get trends is … they can always cherry-pick a region or a timescale but if you look at it from a big climate picture, there is no climate emergency — no climate bad weather that we need reparations for.... The [second] thing interesting about this … is that thesepoor nations have actually immensely benefited from the wealthy nations’ use of fossil fuels. We brought schools, hospitals, medicine, infrastructure to these developing world countries and allowed them to develop even better. They’re enjoying a lot of the First World benefits from our wealth, and so the key is to allow the Third World or the developing world (Africa, Asia, South America, the 1 billion-plus people that have no access to running water, adequate access to running water and electricity) to develop like we did. And the real problem is they don’t want them to develop. They don’t want them to make the same “mistakes” (i.e., long life expectancy, lower infant mortality, infrastructure, wealth creation). So instead, they want us to just pay them, pay their leaders to keep their people poor because then they’ll be good stewards of the environment. In a nutshell, that really is what the UN climate reparations fund is all about. Yeah, like you say it’s “keep the poor poor,” and there’s been a lot of studies that have come out that say poor people and poverty are actually worse for the environment. When people are in desperation, they put a strain on natural resources far more than people who are in developed societies. So it’s actually probably having the opposite effect that [the UN delegates] want. Is that correct?< Yes, you’re directly on point. What’s happened is — and there have been studies on this and we’ve observed this over the last 100 years — wealthier nations have cleaner environments and put less strain on the resources. Now, you can look at places in the developing world, whether it’s India or Brazil or South America or African nations.They’re living in huts made of animal dung. They’re burning dung and wood inside with horrible air quality. They don’t have modern sanitation. The rivers are polluted. They don’t have means of modern fossil fuel energy. So what do they do? They clear-cut forests, they burn trees, they in some cases hunt species that lose habitat. They don’t have high-yield agriculture that comes with wealth and wealth creation and technological advancement. So they don’t get enough food, or they need more land to feed people instead of increasing the food yield on the existing land for farmland. ...So it turns out if you look back at like Eastern European nations, they had some of the filthiest environments and they were the ones that were the poorest centrally planned socialist nations of the 20th century. In fact, if you look at like the United States, the World Health Organization lists the United States air quality as among the cleanest in the world. And since the first Earth Day, we’ve radically improved our air and water quality while at the same time seeing massive economic growth and massive population increases. It can be done. And the way not to do it is the way the United Nations in this climate summit in Egypt tries to approach it through central planning, through regulatory bodies, and through literally trying to micromanage every aspect of human life and development, instead of allowing wealth prosperity through a free market system. They’re dead set against that.... So let’s go back to what happened at COP27 just for a moment because I read that China is exempt from paying any of these climate reparations, but China has the world’s second-biggest economy and they’re the world’s biggest polluters. So how did that happen? : Well, it happens because China is still listed as a “developing nation.” You know, these are all called racist colonial terms. You can’t say “Third World.” If you say “First World nation,” like Europe or the United States, that’s considered racist. So I guess China’s an “emerging economy,” is how they define it.So the United States could be on the hook for a billion dollars per year, possibly in climate reparations, and then China would have to pay absolutely zero, not a cent,because they’re considered a developing nation/emerging economy. … They were also in many ways exempt from the UN Paris Agreement for the same reasons >And so what’s happened here is all of these nations end up coming here and they’re begging for money. And this doesn’t necessarily help the people at all. This helps the leaders of the countries begging for this money because it ensures they get money, they can then buy their reelection, they can build monuments to themselves, they can pay off all the people that they need to, they can solidify their power. But I wouldn’t even be surprised in the UN process if China ended up being on the receiving end of these climate reparations. Keep in mind, China doesn’t only benefit from not having to pay so-called climate reparations. But they benefit from the entire UN Green New Deal [and] net-zero agenda because the world is going to be looking to China. The U.S. buys over 80 percent of our solar panels currently from China. We rely on China for all the rare earth mining for lithium and cobalt. China is expanding mining operations in Africa — places like the Congo withallegationsof underage labor of children of 8, 9 years old by international human rights groups. So this whole UN climate summit we saw in Egypt was actually the China empowerment summit because China is going to benefit from everything that comes out of this. The West will get poorer. The West will see more regulations. The West will be more reliant on China as we go forward with this UN Green New Deal agenda. That’s getting at the real question here because when all these delegates showed up in Egypt, there were, I guess, 400 jets that landed, and so [the delegates] can’t care about the environment that much if they’re taking private jets to the conference. So what’s in it for them? I mean, why would they want to make Western nations poorer and these other Third World countries richer? Why redistribute the wealth? What is the purpose? What’s in it for [the Westerners who are allowing this to happen]? That’s a great question. You figure, why are they doing this? Well, the answer is simple. On one hand, you have the ideologues, and these could be the people like Harrison Ford and Leonardo DiCaprio, who literally think that the earth is facing a climate emergency and unless the UN saves us somehow from this climate catastrophe by passing some agreement that we’re all doomed. And you have young activists who actually believe that. Now, Greta Thunberg left [the UN climate summit]. She’s not a climate skeptic. She believes in the climate emergency but she’s so concerned about climate that she now recognizes that if you care about climate, the UN is actually a scam full of lying and greenwashing. And this is why Greta Thunberg for the first time since she came on the public seat was not in attendance at this conference So what ends up happening is you have world leaders who get to virtue signal, who get to have all these ideologues in green energy and corporate backers — in many cases, Democrat Party donors — push this whole green agenda on it because there’s a lot of money and campaign contributions to be made. And they don’t think they’re necessarily destroying America. They think, and they’ve been led to believe, that solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels, and they’re just about to take over and this is going to be a revolution and they’re going to lead it. Some of the politicians actually believe it. The others maybe are more cynical and this is just what their donors are pushing. This is what the UN is pushing. This is what the media is pushing. It becomes a sort of groupthink virtue signal. And it’s incredible.
I interviewed as a member of the Ukrainian delegation at this conference, and they actually told me with a straight face that [what] Vladimir Putin fears [the most] is European nations doubling down on green energy. I can tell you right now, theMiddle East, Venezuela, China, and Vladimir Putin’s Russiawould laugh hysterically at European nations doubling down on green energy because this is the mess that they’re in. Because of the green energy agenda, [European nations] ended up beingreliant. In the case of Germany, 50 percent of their energy was coming from Russia. And now we’re seeing the new prime minister of England basically saying they’re not going to open up their fracking, they’re still continuing this. It’s a powerful ideology, where they think if they go against it, they’ll lose elections, they’ll lose donors, they’ll get media disapproval, and they’ll get their children angry at them because they’re not saving the Earth. So that’s how you get people to go against their own interests.
The flip side of that is how do you get African nations and poor nations where a billion people don’t have adequate running water and electricity — how do you get them to sign on to these UN deals? You pay them off.You come up with a climate slush fund, the climate reparations fund. So the one thing you have to understand is the UN is very competent at one thing, Evita, and that is A) throwing a party and B) knowing how to play politics, knowing how to transfer money, knowing how to put the right interests in the right place to make things happen. So they bring Africa and poor nations in South America to the table by offering huge sums of cash. They bring the Western leaders to the table by offering massive disapproval and, as John Kerry said, “global shaming” if you don’t support this. Look what happened when Donald Trump pulled us out of the UN Paris Agreement. All hell broke loose. World leaders, the media, academia, the United Nations, [and] youth activists condemned him. Donald Trump was seen as Satan himself for not supporting the UN Paris climate accords and withdrawing from them. So you ask what they get out of it? They get out of avoiding being labeled like Donald Trump was.
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This past summer, third-years Audrey Unverferth and Evita Duffy founded the Chicago Thinker, a student newspaper publishing news and opinions from conservative and libertarian points of view. The paper’s purpose is “to defend conservative and libertarian perspectives in a community that is increasingly intolerant of such voices,” according to the Thinker’s mission statement.
Unverferth, who serves as both editor-in-chief and publisher, and Duffy, the paper’s managing editor, hope that the Thinker provides a platform for conservative and libertarian students to express their ideas to the University of Chicago community. “I think it's necessary to have a platform for conservatives and libertarians to thoughtfully speak, and then to hopefully engage with others,” Unverferth said.
“Part of our mission is to expose the student body to a different school of thought, to expose them to conservative and libertarian ideas that aren't usually seen in the campus community,” Duffy said.
Duffy and Unverferth said the Thinker’s founding was prompted by their perception that the campus community is unwilling to engage with conservative and libertarian ideas.
Last March, a post by the University ofChicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP) featured Duffy holding a sign that read “I vote because the coronavirus won’t destroy America, but socialism will.” The photo sparked widespread controversy, inspiring hundreds of posts on social media, some substantive and some aimed at Duffy’s personal character. The incident drew a**response**from IOP Director David Axelrod.
In May 2019, hundreds of students gathered to protest a bill that Brett Barbin, then a fourth-year College Council representative and head of the University of Chicago College Republicans, proposed to College Council that would have banned student life fees from being used to fund abortions.
“The problem that we're currently facing on campus right now is that conservatives and libertarians are too afraid to speak because of the extraordinary social consequences that individuals like Evita and Brett Barbin have experienced,” Unverferth said.
Nonetheless, Unverferth said the editors of the Thinker are open to publishing work that reflects other points of view. “We happily consider work by those from across the political spectrum,” she said. “We love to communicate across the political aisle, and we disagree, behind closed doors, and also in our pages frequently, so we're not an echo chamber.”
Most of the articles published so far by the Thinker address expressly political topics like qualified immunity and the 2020 elections, but Unverferth wants to publish other content in the future. “I think it would be boring for our readers if we only focused on politics,” she said. “And so I would really like to expand to cover various arts events and sports games, et cetera.”
“Writers are going to focus on stories that they think are important to inform the student body [about] at UChicago,” she said. “They'll cover subjects on everything from what's happening on campus to what's happening abroad.”
The Chicago Thinker is currently a digital-only publication, but Unverferth hopes to publish a physical edition in the future. Her plans, however, have been complicated given the ongoing pandemic. “My goal is to go into print as soon as feasible,” she said. “I think life needs to resume a little bit more to normal, but I would really love to have a print edition by the end of the school year.”
Unverferth confirmed that the Thinker received grant funding from Collegiate Network, a program that supports conservative and libertarian publications on college campuses. The organization is operated by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a nonprofit that supports conservative college students by hosting debates and lectures, providing networking opportunities, and funding conservative student organizations, publications, and fellowships.
“They provided us with a grant to launch our newspaper,” said Unverferth. “They provide mentorship. And in the case of the Chicago Thinker, they provided the funding to build our website.”
Publications supported by Collegiate Network include The Princeton Tory, The Dartmouth Review, and the recently launched Danforth Dispatch at Washington University in St. Louis. ISI’s website lists Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who started The Federalist as an undergraduate at Columbia University, and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who started The Stanford Review as an undergraduate, among the organization’s alumni.
Unverferth said that backing by the ISI will not influence editorial decisions at the Thinker. “We choose how to spend our grant money, we choose what to publish, we chose our name,” she said. “They do not possess any editorial control whatsoever upon what we publish, but they have provided our primary source of funding.”
Looking forward, Unverferth and Duffy hope to raise money to start printing physical copies of the paper. “We're planning to create some form of fundraisers so that we can raise money in order to go into print, and more in conversations with various organizations and alumni and others to obtain funding,” Unverferth said.
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Last winter, undergraduate Evita Duffy, now managing editor of the Chicago Thinker, played a role in the Institute of Politics (IOP)’s campaign to encourage student voting. In response to her contribution, which consisted of her holding a sign that reads, “I vote because the coronavirus won’t destroy America, but socialism will,” she was met with relentless harassment, which escalated to death threats, from UChicago students. It was this climate, one of extreme frustration from those on the right who found themselves under attack, that led to the creation of the Thinker, UChicago’s fledgling conservative paper.
One coregoal of the Thinker is to “defend conservative and libertarian perspectives” against “leftist dogma” by “tak[ing] up arms––i.e., pens and paper––and fight[ing] back.” And, as I learned from conversations with staff writers and editors at the paper, it’s their hope that right-leaning ideas will be incorporated into regular discourse at the university through their writing. Strongly committed to combating the effects of liberal hegemony, which they view as leading students to become “intellectually lazy and incapable of thorough reflection,” members of the Thinker have written with palpable aggression. Yet this aggression has completely failed to integrate their voices into common spaces at UChicago––if anything, their heavy-handed, inflammatory approach at integration has furthered the divide between progressives and conservatives on campus. And from speaking to members of the paper, it’s clear that nothing will change for the foreseeable future.
Admittedly, there are articles published by the Thinker in which domains of conservative thought are discussed in relatively uncontroversial ways that could lead to fruitful conversations. However, as Vice President for Editorial Operations, Analysis, and Intellectual Formation Declan Hurley says, the most-read articles from the Thinker are “going to be the ones that attract the most controversy.” Nearly all of the most popular pieces on the site mirror mainstream conservative thought in a way that reliably triggers a knee-jerk reaction from those on the left. As I write this column, the most-read article on the site is third-year Sonni Fitzsimonds’s “Unity? No Thanks, I’ll Pass,” in which we’re handed stock assertions that the “Democrat lackeys”––in this case CNN, MSNBC, the Associated Press, etc.––have preemptively and groundlessly declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election. She then goes on to make accusations that Democrats started this trend of doubting election results, rehashing the past four years of divisive fighting about Russia’s involvement in 2016.
Predictably, the response to this article in the comment section has been severe and unproductive. Moving past several comments that cannot be quoted here and one Gary Johnson–related comment that is as sarcastic as it is sexually explicit, one user, going under the alias of Leon Festinger, left thorough comments on the article as if grading a paper. But even this quickly devolved into mockery––“To your point on the coronavirus, all I can say is fuck off…I personally didn’t believe I would make it this far in the article without painkillers”––before Fitzsimonds is left with a C-minus and even more derision in the form of feedback.
The reactions the Thinker has evoked thus far are characterized best by Fitzsimonds, who, during our conversation, described the two main groups reading the paper as “conservatives that already agree with what they’re reading and leftists that just want to get angry.” Yet when I asked various members of the editorial board how they could change the way students engage with their content, they all echoed Fitzsimonds’s insistence that “the base issue is the open-mindedness of the reader.” Senior Opinion Editor Eden Negussie told me that it’s not productive to “water down” conservative ideas to “appease people that are…more left.” In response to the same line of questioning, Senior Analysis Editor Mitch Robson explained several ideas he had for events to facilitate political conversations but did not raise the possibility of changing the Thinker’s approach to its coverage, instead saying, “We’re not going to compromise our views.”
Through these conversations, I learned that early in the process of forming the Thinker there were many internal debates over its motto: “Outthink the mob.” Some were worried that characterizing the left as a mob would be seen as too divisive, concerns which ultimately rang true for many on our campus. Yet the desire to forcefully stand up for conservative ideas eventually won out, and concerns over division have been tabled ever since.
As bothersome as this approach may be, I can’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. The only people on this campus that behave with the same kind of exclusionary, all-or-nothing mindset as members of the Thinker are individuals on the left reacting to their ideas. This trend began before the Thinkereven existed, evinced best through Duffy’s ordeal with the IOP. Simply for challenging socialism, albeit in a very clumsy and public way, Duffy was mocked, insulted, and repeatedly told that she was the most hated person on campus. Even now, it seems like a vast majority of our student population regularly expresses the idea that just associating with conservatives on campus is loathsome. In my time here, the only contexts in which my conservative peers have come up are ones of derision and general avoidance tactics. So when I accuse members of the Thinker of aggressively insular behavior, I can’t help but picture them pointing the finger right back at us, and it feels as though we enter an endless cycle of finger-pointing, frustration, and discord.
Don’t get me wrong, I do not and will not apologize for the arguments made by writers at the Thinker: that journalists announcing Biden’s victory are “Democrat lackeys,” that the Democratic party doesn’t support women, or that the Democrats have used COVID–19 as a political tool. The values that these articles promote are inexcusable. But as a sole matter of progressive strategy, the alienation of conservatives is clearly not working. 74 million people voted for Trump in the 2020 election, and as a country we cannot fundamentally move beyond his presidency until we can convince them to move forward with us.
Mirroring the ascent of many prominent conservative papers at other top universities, like The Dartmouth Review and The Princeton Tory, the Thinker began with a minimal presence, but it is showing signs of future success. According to editors at the paper, the Thinker has seen an uptick in readers following an appearance by Duffy on Fox News, and there are rumors that several prominent members of the conservative media subscribe to its email newsletter. If such associative credibility is utilized properly, growth seems inevitable. Yet whether it succeeds or fails, it will remain an institution that solely helps students of differing political views talk past each other, at least so long as nothing changes.
It’s clear from the rigidity of those at the Thinker, however, that if we want progress, if we want more productive political conversations that actually change minds, it will have to start from left to right. When those at the Thinker call for more tolerance of free speech, it can feel like you’re supporting their harmful ideas simply by acknowledging them. But it’s time to recognize that the open discussion of conservative ideas, as an opportunity to air and correct ignorance, is not just beneficial but essential for the success of progressive goals. As reluctant as you may be to hear this, we can respond critically to content from the Thinker without supporting its validity, and we can treat conservatives as thoughtful peers without supporting their political goals. In fact, it may be our only way forward.
Clark Kovacs is a first-year in the College.
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Apr 8, 2022On the last day of the "Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy" conference hosted by the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics (IOP), Chicago Thinker co-founder and Managing Editor Evita Duffy grilled Senator Amy Klobuchar (D., Minnesota) on the seemingly unlimited reach of her bill targeting "misinformation.". Duffy asked Klobuchar to clarify her proposed bill, the ...
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Apr 10, 2022Until this week, I had never heard of The Chicago Thinker or Evita Duffy. Maybe I've been in a hole or something but apparently there's a group of young journalists who are taking on the left in one of the most radically progressive cities in America. They asked honest and brutal questions to panels at The Atlantic's recent event.
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View Evita Duffy's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. ... Co-Founder and Managing Editor at The Chicago Thinker Chicago, Illinois, United States. 192 followers ...
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Apr 10, 2022In the meantime, here's the video of Duffy on Fox News: "The establishment media is fragile."Evita Duffy reacts to @anneapplebaum, @JeffreyGoldberg, and @JonahDispatch having a "complete and utter meltdown" after getting asked sincere questions by the Chicago Thinker. pic.twitter.com/dIYTS5AntM — The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) April 10, 2022
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Evita Duffy Retweeted The Chicago Thinker @ThinkerChicago · Only corporate journalists and other members of the elite class could possibly think that the reason millions of Americans care more about gas prices is because they lack sufficient priorities. Sarcastically mocking concerns about gas prices is the new "let them eat cake." Quote Tweet
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Apr 8, 2022The Chicago Thinker @ThinkerChicago. Evita Duffy: "All it took was a couple of college kids to get together and turn this entire farce of an event into a national conversation about the corporate, liberal media's disinformation and their bias." @evitaduffy_1. 0:24.
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Evita Duffy is an American co-founder and the Managing Editor of the Chicago Thinker working as the senior contributor to The Federalist. Additionally, she is also the first-born child of the former USA representative of Wisconsin's 7th congressional district, Sean Duffy. Evita Duffy Age
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Joining me now, Evita Duffy contributor at the Federalist cofounder of the Chicago Thinker. She's also a junior at the University of Chicago. Evita. I gotta tell you, I'm so proud of you standing up on the campuses. I know that it's hard to do covering it for years. What made you, what made you take that bold stance on this issue?
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Apr 10, 2022Evita Duffy Evita Duffy is the Chicago Thinker's Managing Editor. As a senior at the University of Chicago, she studies American History and Creative Writing. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evitapduffy@uchicago.edu. Tim 7 months ago
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CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER | Jaelyn Douglas ('24) CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | Kevin Lam ('23) SOCIAL CHAIR | Jahmiel Jackson ('24) COFOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITA | Audrey Unverferth ('22) COFOUNDER AND MANAGING EDITOR EMERITA | Evita Duffy Alfonso ('22) ALUMNI ADVISORS Gerrin T. Alexander ('24) Lukus Berber ('19, M.D. '24)
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Apr 15, 2022If you listen to The Chicago Way podcast—the episode featuring Evita Duffy, co-founder of the Thinker- you'll hear about the days when I was Axelrod's copy boy at "the paper." Naturally, the dire partisan warnings from Obama made local news. But there were few if any local stories on the media meltdown and the Chicago Thinker.
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Apr 20, 2021Corrupt Chicago Archbishop To College Kids: Don't Go To Mass - The Chicago Thinker Corrupt Chicago Archbishop To College Kids: Don't Go To Mass In an email a religious leader wrote to me in February, he said turning people away from Mass to comply with social distancing is 'how we show obedience to our bishop as Catholics.' by Evita Duffy
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Managing Editor Evita Duffy talks about the Chicago Thinker's Impact on the liberal elites' "Disinformation Conference!" "All it took was a couple of...
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Newly Launched Chicago Thinker Aims to Promote Conservative and Libertarian Views on Campus Third-years Audrey Unverferth and Evita Duffy started the newspaper to provide a platform for conservative and libertarian students. A gargoyle statue on Cobb Gate dons a mask. By Adyant Kanakamedala, Managing Editor November 2, 2020
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Evita Duffy's Work History and Education. Chicago Thinker. Co-Founder and Managing Editor. 2020 - Present. The Federalist. Intern. 2020 - Present.
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Dec 24, 2020The Thinker's failing, inflammatory approach to campus integration should inspire a re-evaluation of leftist strategy. By Clark Kovacs December 24, 2020 Last winter, undergraduate Evita Duffy, now managing editor of the Chicago Thinker, played a role in the Institute of Politics (IOP)'s campaign to encourage student voting.
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Evita Duffy is the Chicago Thinker's Managing Editor. As a senior at the University of Chicago, she studies American History and Creative Writing. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evitapduffy@uchicago.edu.
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Oct 5, 2022While on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, Chicago Thinker co-founder and University of Chicago alumna Evita Duffy Alfonso condemned UChicago United for excluding white people from its planned "Race @ UChicago" discussion. Duffy Alfonso also spoke on COVID-19 policies in light of Amherst College's new, dictatorial masking policy.
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Nov 21, 2022Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at...
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Dec 5, 2020As the Managing Editor of the Thinker, an intern at The Federalist, and the older sister of a young sibling with DS, Duffy vocally condemns this normalization of eugenics. She and her family adore the youngest member of their family: " [Valentina is] so sweet. She's adorable. She loves music…She's the favorite of our family."