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John M. Olin Foundation was a grant-making foundation established in 1953 by John M. Olin, president of the Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturing businesses. Unlike most non-profit foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation was charged to spend all of its assets within a generation of Olin's death, for fear of mission drift over time. It made its last grant in the summer of 2005 and officially disbanded on November 29 of that year after having disbursed over $370 in funding, primarily to conservative think tanks, media outlets, and law programs at influential universities. A Foundation is a type of philanthropic organization set up by either individuals or institutions as a legal entity (usually either a corporation or a trust) with the purpose of distributing grants to support causes in line with the goals of the foundation. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
The Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) is a major manufacturer of copper alloys (through subsidiary Olin Brass), ammunition (through the Winchester Ammunition), and chlorine and sodium hydroxide (Olin Chlor-Alkali Products). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Conservatism [derivative of conserve; from Latin conservare, to keep, guard, observe] is a philosophy defined by Edmund Burke as a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve. Classical conservatism does not readily avail itself to the ideology of objectives. ...
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History and purpose The fund was largely inactive until 1969, when John M. Olin was disturbed by a building takeover at his alma mater, Cornell University. At the age of 80, he decided that he must pour his time and resources into preserving the free market system that had allowed him to acquire his own wealth. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
Cornell University is a private research university located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York. ...
A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...
The Foundation is most notable for its early support and funding of the law and economics movement, a discipline that applies incentive-based thinking and cost-benefit analysis to the field of legal theory. Olin believed that law schools have a disproportionately large impact on society given their size and to this end decided to focus the majority of his funding there. Law and economics is the term usually applied to an approach to legal theory that incorporates methods and ideas borrowed from the discipline of economics. ...
Cost-benefit analysis is the process of weighing the total expected costs vs. ...
Law (from the late Old English lagu of probable North Germanic origin) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide...
NOTE: Much of the information found here can also be found in legal education. ...
According to the official website, "the general purpose of the John M. Olin Foundation is to provide support for projects that reflect or are intended to strengthen the economic, political and cultural institutions upon which the American heritage of constitutional government and private enterprise is based. The Foundation also seeks to promote a general understanding of these institutions by encouraging the thoughtful study of the connections between economic and political freedoms, and the cultural heritage that sustains them."[1]
William E. Simon served as president of the Foundation from 1977 until his death in 2000. He frequently discussed the foundation's commitment to supporting the “counterintelligentsia.” The Olin Foundation was formerly managed by Michael S. Joyce, who left to head the similar Bradley Foundation. James Piereson was the last executive director and secretary. William Edward Simon (November 27, 1927–June 3, 2000) became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 8, 1974, during the Nixon administration. ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential right-wing foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. ...
Gun controversy The John M. Olin Foundation funded the John M. Olin Fellowship at University of Chicago. While serving in the position professor John Lott produced a study that argued that relaxing concealed weapons laws can reduce crime. The study was attacked by gun control supporters for its funding from the John M. Olin Fellowship and its relationship with the Olin Corporation, though one commentator noted that this was akin to claiming that the Ford Foundation serves the interests of automakers.[2] Olin Fellows are chosen by faculty, and not by the foundation, so the Olin Corporation could not have had influence over the work. The University of Chicago is a private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Gun politics. ...
The Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) is a major manufacturer of copper alloys (through subsidiary Olin Brass), ammunition (through the Winchester Ammunition), and chlorine and sodium hydroxide (Olin Chlor-Alkali Products). ...
The Ford Foundation is a US charitable foundation created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty and promote international understanding (see mission statement). ...
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John R. Lott Jr. ...
2005 Board of Directors - Eugene F. Williams Jr., Chairman
- George J. Gillespie III, President and Treasurer
- James Piereson, Secretary
- Peter M. Flanigan
- Richard M. Furlaud
- Charles F. Knight
Charles F. Knight is chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co. ...
Partial list of grant recipients
Think tanks The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense. ...
The Cato Institute is a large libertarian, non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and...
Eagle Forum , founded in 1972, is a conservative political organization that serves chiefly as the institutional alter ego of activist Phyllis Schlafly. ...
The Free Congress Foundation (more formally the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, and Free Congress or FCF for short), is a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. founded and led by Paul Weyrich. ...
The Heritage Foundation, a think tank located in Washington, D.C., is an influential public policy research institute whose stated mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. ...
Hoover Tower The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative/libertarian public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. ...
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university in Stanford, California, USA. It is incorporated as The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. ...
The Hudson Institute is a United States, non-partisan, conservative think tank founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York by the futurist Herman Kahn and other colleagues from the RAND Corporation. ...
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is an influential conservative think tank based in New York, and established in 1978. ...
The Philanthropy Roundtable was established by the Bradley Foundation to help facilitate conservative grantmaking. ...
Universities The John M. Olin Foundation has also given large amounts of money to conservative groups at prestigious colleges and universities, including the Federalist Society. The University of Chicago Law School is a part of the University of Chicago. ...
Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
Stanford Law School is a graduate school of Stanford University located in Stanford, California in the Silicon Valley. ...
The University of Virginia School of Law was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his academical village, the University of Virginia. ...
Yale Law School, established in 1843 in New Haven, Connecticut, is a division of Yale University. ...
Washington University in St. ...
The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ...
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, began at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1982 as a student organization that challenged what it saw as the orthodox American liberal ideology found in...
Professorships There are several dozen John M. Olin Professors at universities and law schools around the world, including: Fordham University is a prestigious co-educational private university in New York City. ...
George Mason Universitys Fairfax campus George Mason University or GMU, also referred to by locals and students as simply Mason, is an institution of higher learning in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with campuses in Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William County, Virginia, all in the suburbs of Washington, DC. In...
Walter E. Williams (born 1936) is an American economist. ...
Yale Law School, established in 1843 in New Haven, Connecticut, is a division of Yale University. ...
George L. Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. ...
Publications Collegiate Network The Collegiate Network (also, CN) is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to focusing public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards. ...
The National Interest is a prominent quarterly international affairs journal, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and currently published by the Nixon Center. ...
The New Criterion is a New York-based magazine, a journal of art and cultural criticism. ...
Authors and researchers This article is about William Bennett the US politician. ...
Allan Bloom, in his middle age. ...
The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (published 1987 ISBN 5551868680), describes how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of todays students. ...
Robert Bork Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. ...
David Brock David Brock was a prominent conservative journalist of the 1990s who in 1998 became a liberal and now works to dismantle the conservative media machine of which he was once a part. ...
The Real Anita Hill is the controversial 1993 book written by David Brock (before his departure from the conservative movement) that revealed the real motives of Anita Hill, who accused the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. ...
Anita F. Hill (born July 30, 1956) was a colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prior to Thomas appointment to the Supreme Court. ...
Justice Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist and has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the U.S. and leads the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. ...
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (ISBN 1400047285) is a 2002 book written by former conservative journalist David Brock detailing his departure from the conservative movement. ...
Linda Chavez, born June 17, 1947, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a prominent Hispanic American conservative author, commentator, who hosts a daily radio show on WMET 1160 AM radio in Washington, DC.. She also writes a weekly syndicated column. ...
Dinesh DSouza (born April 25, 1961 in Mumbai, India) is an American conservative author. ...
Ted Frank is Resident Fellow and Director of the AEI Liability Project at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. ...
Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup detats, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. ...
Cover of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order The Clash of Civilizations is a controversial theory in international relations popularized by Samuel P. Huntington. ...
Irving Kristol (born 1920) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. ...
John R. Lott Jr. ...
Considered a founder of the Law and economics discipline. ...
Harvey Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. ...
Charles Murray is the name of several notable people: Charles Murray, the Libertarian and author of The Bell Curve. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Michael Novak (born September 9, 1933) is a conservative Roman Catholic American philosopher and diplomat. ...
George Joseph Stigler (1911 - 1991) was a U.S. economist. ...
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