How the Mellon Foundation Funded Wokeness at American Universities

<![CDATA[The Atlantic has an interesting story up today about the ways in which a single foundation with a massive endowment has become the primary source of outside funding for humanities work at colleges and universities. How this happened is interesting. There was a time when the Mellon Foundation was just one of several foundations that directed money toward the humanities, but over the last few decades, most of the others have fallen away. That left Mellon as the major source of funding for humanities grants. ]]>