This is a marvelous example of how political influence in the United States works. Mind the Campus is an umbrella group of a conservative lobbying group - a 50

This is a marvelous example of how political influence in the United States works. Mind the Campus is an umbrella group of a conservative lobbying group - a 501(c)(3) - called the National Association of Scholars (NAS) https://www.nas.org/about-us https://www.nas.org/about-us. See https://www.mindingthecampus.org/about/ https://www.mindingthecampus.org/about/ to confirm the relationship. You can see details of NAS's lobbying programs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Scholars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Schola.... It is in turn funded by major foundations (Scaife, Olin, Bradley) that fund multiple, coordinating advocacy organizations to achieve policy outcomes. Nothing is wrong with this, but it is pretty classic technique to create independent sounding subsidiaries like this for different influence effects, on different audiences. This is not to say that the article is wrong, it's just to provide context for readers who may not know it's a piece from a conservative lobbying group. It part of a broader, coordinated strategy and is crafted to influence a specific policy outcome.