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==see cool ppl do cool thingsjudy bariencounter bks bio bad rom writer==<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BRADLEY FUNDS PRINT MEDIA AND THE CULTURE WARS</h2>As early as the 1990s, the Bradley Foundation decided to engage deeply in the culture wars with heavy investments in print media. The Bradley files document $19.47 million in grants to the media firm called “Encounter for Culture and Education” between 1992-2015 (Encounter for Culture and Education, Grant History Document, 2015). The firm publishes and houses Encounter Books, which Bradley helped found in 1998.A report on Encounter Books in the Bradley documents from July 2015 by former Board Member and Bradley Prize recipient George Will details Bradley’s aim in investing millions in Encounter. The goal is “not only to provide an independent means to support books and authors whose work contributed to the educational mission of the Foundation,” but also “to foster an institution whose energies could help promote the values of democratic capitalism, ordered liberty, and individual responsibility” (Report on Encounter Books, July 2015).“Bradley has been the central force in enabling Encounter to become America’s premier publisher of serious conservative non-fiction,” wrote Roger Kimball, current publisher of Encounter, in a letter to the Bradley Foundation in 2016.Kimball publishes a host of right-wing authors in politics, history, religion, biography, education, public policy, and current affairs. Recently, Encounter published The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, by the Manhattan Institute and Bradley Prize winner Heather MacDonald. “This book provides a vivid, meticulously researched account of how the Black Lives Matter movement has reignited racially-biased violence in cities across the country,” Kimball notes.Kimball “long wanted to publish” an American history text that can be used in high schools as an alternative to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. The right wing has long hated Zinn’s monumental text for its honest and frank description of U.S. history starting with the genocide of indigenous peoples in 1492.University of Oklahoma Professor Bill McClay, author of Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America, has been contracted to write the counternarrative with support from the Charles Koch Foundation, the letter reads. According to Kimball, he is “in discussion with Koch people about strategies to get the book adopted by school districts in Texas and Oklahoma.”Kimball is a strong partner in Bradley’s effort to advance a new, right-wing version of American history and culture. Between 1986 and 2015, Bradley has also given over $5.1 million to the Foundation for Cultural Review specifically to support The New Criterion edited and published by Kimball (FCR, Grant Proposal Record, 7/20/16). The New Criterion touts itself as a monthly review of arts and intellectual life “on the front lines of the battle for culture.”Other spin published by Kimball includes: The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities (2017), Campus Speech in Crisis:What the Yale Experience Can Teach America (2016), Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science (2008), and The Anti-Chomsky Reader (2004).Bradley documents quote The Sunday Telegraph: “If they issued medals for the ‘culture wars,’ Roger Kimball’s chest would be covered with ribbons.”---The absence of formal organizational linkages between the entities within these networks creates an illusion of independent analytical voices reaching similar conclusions about strategic policy issues, a technique known in the public relations industry as “astroturfing.” This network has developed an enormous capacity to generate “data” consistent with the targeted political agenda and world views of its core group of funders to quickly and redundantly represent these issues in the mainstream press by what appear to be the voices of independent analysts and to translate these viewpoints into public policy that serves the focused ideological agenda of this core group of funders. The Bradley Foundation under Michael Joyce's leadership has even established a publishing house, Encounter Books, to ensure that grantees like Horowitz have a quasi-academic outlet for their viewpoints.=

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Another gem, The Professors, was literally <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidehighered.com%2Fnews%2F2006%2F05%2F09%2Freport">laughed off</a> by the academic community.  Many of them saw their inclusion into the book as a badge of honor.  One of the supposed radical academics Horowitz "exposed" in his book was <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.truman.edu%2F%257Emarc%2FBecker.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">Marc Becker from Truman State University</a>.  Becker was "organizer and media developer" for "Historians against the War" and made the uncontroversial statement that "Indigenous peoples of the Americas" have been devastated by the policies of some multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund.  Scary stuff, right?

Horowitz's book, One-Party Classroom, which not surprisingly beats that same dead horse, was recently included in the American Book Review's list of <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Famericanbookreview.org%2FPDF%2FTop40BadBooks.pdf">Top 40 Bad Books</a>.  Not just in 2009, but ever. Santa Clara University academic Marc Bousquet's <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Famericanbookreview.org%2FPDF%2FTop40BadBooks.pdf" style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">review</a> of One-Party Classroom is delightfully accurate:

This book just goes after the syllabi, not the scholarship of the faculty, and the somnolence it produces is hard to describe. Evidently, they should have credited Google as the third author. The Horowitz staffers tasked with compiling this stinker simply trolled online campus catalogs to yield course descriptions using such democracy-undermining terms as "justice," "inequality," "race," and "feminism," then wrote lame descriptions characterizing the syllabi as part of a plot to deprive William Gates and Dick Cheney of their hard-earned profits.

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<h2 style="font-weight: normal;">Books Published by Encounter</h2>

It has published books by:

<ul>

<li style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Myron_Magnet" title="Myron Magnet">Myron Magnet</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Fumento" title="Michael Fumento" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michael Fumento</a>, <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/bibi/bibi.html" rel="nofollow" class="external text" title="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/bibi/bibi.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">Bio-Evolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World</a>, Encounter Books, October 2003.</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kate_Coleman" title="Kate Coleman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">Kate Coleman</a>'s<a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/sewa/sewa.html" rel="nofollow" class="external text" title="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/sewa/sewa.html">The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First!</a>, January 2005. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/1893554740" class="internal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">ISBN 1893554740</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jessica_Gavora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jessica Gavora (page does not exist)">Jessica Gavora</a> her book was funded by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a><a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=98" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=98">[1]</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Horowitz_%28ex-Marxist%29" title="David Horowitz (ex-Marxist)">David Horowitz</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Collier" title="Peter Collier">Peter Collier</a>, The Anti-Chomsky Reader;</li>

<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Radosh" title="Ronald Radosh" style="font-weight: normal;">Ronald Radosh</a> Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left; and</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Debra_Saunders&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Debra Saunders (page does not exist)">Debra Saunders</a> The Hillary Trap and The World According to Gore;</li>

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<h2 style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">Funding</h2>

According to Media Transparency <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Encounter_for_Culture_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Encounter for Culture Foundation (page does not exist)">Encounter for Culture Foundation</a> has received over $4.6 million from a total of 70 grants from foundations between 1991 and 2002. <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=98" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=98">[2]</a>

Foundations that have supported Encounter include conservative foundations such as:

<ul>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G._Koch_Charitable_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JM_Foundation" title="JM Foundation">JM Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shelby_Cullum_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shelby Cullum Foundation (page does not exist)">Shelby Cullum Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M._McKenna_Foundation" title="Philip M. McKenna Foundation">Philip M. McKenna Foundation</a></li>

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Peter Collier was the founding publisher of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Encounter_Books" title="Encounter Books">Encounter Books</a> in California. He held that position until he resigned in 2005, when Encounter Books offices were moved from San Francisco to New York City, and Collier was replaced as publisher by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_Kimball" title="Roger Kimball">Roger Kimball</a>. Collier is also an associate with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Horowitz_%28ex-Marxist%29" title="David Horowitz (ex-Marxist)">David Horowitz</a> on many projects over many decades, e.g., co-editor of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ramparts" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramparts">Ramparts</a>, the "anti-war" magazine; publishing articles in Horowitz's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FrontPage" class="mw-redirect" title="FrontPage">FrontPage</a> magazine; co-author with Horowitz on several books (including The Anti-Chomsky Reader (2004)); and promoter of other Horowitz ventures like the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Study_of_Popular_Culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Center for the Study of Popular Culture">Center for the Study of Popular Culture</a>, which he co-founded with Horowitz. Collier was also a co-organizer of the Second Thoughts conferences for the ex-leftists who recanted or saw the (right-wing) light.

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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;">Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc. (ECE) describes itself as "a tax exempt, non profit corporation". One of its main activities is as a publisher of conservative books by way of its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_Books" title="Encounter Books" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Encounter Books</a>. NB: this group has no website. It is simply a shell company to enable accounting and legal/tax benefits.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="font-weight: normal; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#Nonprofit_status" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Nonprofit status</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Personnel</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Funding</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Articles and resources</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Encounter_for_Culture_and_Education#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.4 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-color="background-color" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat">Nonprofit status</h2>Previously a 501(c)(3), starting in 2002 the group was classified as a private operating foundation and files a Form 990-PF.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://207.153.189.83/EINS/391688129/391688129_2002_00e12e40.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">[1]</a>Its EIN is 39-1688129.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=391688129&Cobrandid=0" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" background-color="background-color" initial="initial" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-color="background-color" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat">Personnel</h2>In 2002 its officers, trustees and directors were:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://207.153.189.83/EINS/391688129/391688129_2002_00e12e40.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">[3]</a><ul style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Collier" title="Peter Collier" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peter Collier</a>, President</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_S.Gallagher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard S. Gallagher (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard S. Gallagher</a>, Chair/VP/Director (Foley & Lardner)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynnette_Zigman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lynnette Zigman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lynnette Zigman</a>, Treasurer/Secretary (Foley & Lardner);</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_V.Uihlein,Jr." title="David V. Uihlein, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David V. Uihlein, Jr.</a>, Director (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bradley_Foundation" title="Bradley Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bradley Foundation</a> )</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Friedlander&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Friedlander (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peter Friedlander</a>, Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Br.Bob_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Br. Bob Smith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Br. Bob Smith</a>, Director</li></ul>In 2006 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Kimball" title="Roger Kimball" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roger Kimball</a> was President and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Piereson" title="James Piereson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Piereson</a> (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_E.Simon_Foundation" title="William E. Simon Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William E. Simon Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Manhattan Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_M.Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/piereson.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[4]</a>) was Assistant Secretary.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://207.153.189.83/EINS/391688129/391688129_2006_037B27C5.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">[5]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-color="background-color" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat">Funding</h2>Media Transparency estimate that ECE has received 70 grants totalling $4.638 million between 1991 and 2002 from a handful of conservative foundations including the:<ul style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_M.Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_G.Koch_Charitable_Foundation" title="Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shelby_Cullom_Davis_Foundation" title="Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_M._McKenna_Foundation" title="Philip M. McKenna Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philip M. 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The absence of formal organizational linkages between the entities within these networks creates an illusion of independent analytical voices reaching similar conclusions about strategic policy issues, a technique known in the public relations industry as “astroturfing.” This network has developed an enormous capacity to generate “data” consistent with the targeted political agenda and world views of its core group of funders to quickly and redundantly represent these issues in the mainstream press by what appear to be the voices of independent analysts and to translate these viewpoints into public policy that serves the focused ideological agenda of this core group of funders. The Bradley Foundation under Michael Joyce's leadership has even established a publishing house, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=98" target="_blank">Encounter Books,</a> [27] to ensure that grantees like Horowitz have a quasi-academic outlet for their viewpoints.

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Publisher

Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The New Criterion</a> and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He is also an art critic for the London Spectator and National Review.

Mr. Kimball is the author of several books, including <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/rapeofthemasters/" style="text-decoration: none;">The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art</a> (Encounter Books, 2004), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arts-Prospect-Challenge-Tradition-Celebrity/dp/1566635098" style="text-decoration: none;">Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity</a> (Ivan R. Dee, 2003),<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Mind-Abuse-Intelligence-Wodehouse/dp/1566635241/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304535954&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration: none;"> Lives of The Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse</a> (Ivan R. Dee, 2002), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experiments-Against-Reality-Culture-Postmodern/dp/156663430X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304535993&sr=1-1-spell" style="text-decoration: none;">Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Era</a> (Ivan R. Dee, 2000), <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/longmarch/" style="text-decoration: none;">The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America</a> (Encounter Books, 2000), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tenured-Radicals-Politics-Corrupted-Education/dp/1566637961/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304536038&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration: none;">Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education</a> (HarperCollins, 1990). A third edition ofTenured Radicals, revised and expanded, was published by Ivan R. Dee, in 2008.

Mr. Kimball lectures widely, has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and has contributed to many publications here and in England, including The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, First Things, American Outlook, Crisis, National Review, and The National Interest.

Senior Staff

Nola Tully (ntullyATencounterbooksDOTcom) is the Executive Director of Operations. She is a writer and editor (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/yes-said-will-Yes-Celebration/dp/1400077311" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ullysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday</a>, Vintage, 2004). She also writes about photography and art, and has worked in various roles of publishing media since 1986.

Lauren Miklos (lmiklosATencounterbooksDOTcom) is our Director of Publicity.

Heather Ohle (ohleATencounterbooksDOTcom) is Director of Production.

Sam Schneider (sschneiderATencounterbooksDOTcom) is Director of Marketing.

Katherine Wong (kwongATencounterbooksDOTcom) is Production Manager.

Founding Publisher

The founding editor and currently a consultant to Encounter Books is <a href="mailto:peter@encounterbooks.com" style="text-decoration: none;">Peter Collier</a>. He has worked as an author and editor for the last thirty years. During that time, he has written novels, short stories and screenplays, along with best selling biographies. Referred to in the New York Times as “America’s premier biographer of dynastic tragedy,” Collier is best known forThe Rockefellers: An American Dynasty; <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/keamp/keamp.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Kennedys: An American Dream</a>; <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/foamp/foamp.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Fords: An American Epic</a>; and <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/dege/dege.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Destructive Generation</a> (all with David Horowitz). He is also the author of The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty and The Roosevelts: An American Saga. Recent books include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-Portraits-Valor-Beyond/dp/1579653146/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232135091&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration: none;">Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty</a>, with photographs by Nick Del Calzo, and<a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/anch/anch.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Anti-Chomsky Reader</a>, co-edited with David Horowitz.

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