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David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under the thumb of its wealthy sponsors. In his tell-all book Blinded by the Right, he writes, I saw how right-wing ideology was manufactured and controlled by a small group of powerful foundations like Smith Richardson, Adolph Coors, Lynde and Harry Bradley, and John M. Olin.

Jane Mayer

David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under the thumb of its wealthy sponsors. In his tell-all book Blinded by the Right, he writes, I saw how right-wing ideology was manufactured and controlled by a small group of powerful foundations like Smith Richardson, Adolph Coors, Lynde and Harry Bradley, and John M. Olin.

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Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. She has written for the publication about money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the United States Predator drone program; Donald Trump's ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz; and Trump's financial backer, Robert Mercer. In 2016, Mayer's book Dark Money—in which she investigated the history of the conservative fundraising Koch brothers—was published to critical acclaim.