“I was recently looking for a bad book to read – preferably in the disconnected-from-reality US foreign policy section while waiting for Anne Applebaum’s forthcoming Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. During my perusing I came across the fact that Andrea Kendall-Taylor, an intelligence officer, prominent anti-Putin fanatic, and supporting actor in the first impeachment of President Trump, co-authors collegiate textbooks, including the 2020 Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes. The text is described as a “broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing challenges to it.” Sold.
Kendall-Taylor’s writing team consists of Erica Frantz, an associate professor of political science at Michigan State University, and Joseph Wright, professor of political science at Penn State. Their disclosure statements on a recent article reveal that Frantz receives funding from USAID, the Pierre Omidyar-funded Luminate Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation. Wright receives funding from the Luminate Foundation, Charles Koch Foundation, and the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative. Doubly sold.”
Interesting to see the Oligarchs working their money power. The Supreme Court has re-written the Constitution, enabling this super rich class to propagandize a fascist state.
The 2025 Mandate, a 900 page compendium outlining the details of fascism for America (courtesy of the Heritage Foundation) is all the rage. Meanwhile the polity watches TV, sports, and celebrities instead of reading the news. Ohhhh so boring, this politics.
Go back to sleep America.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/spook-scholarship-a-prominent-former-cia-analyst-and-project-ukraine-backer-moonlights-as-a-collegiate-textbook-coauthor.html