Posted: Feb 01, 2020 8:18 pm
The article is paywalled, so I couldn't see whether they ran the ruler over the National Association of Scholars. As expected, the National Union of Scholars isn't national, and isn't run by or composed of Scholars, but is the astroturf mouthpiece for a rightwing billionaire (by inheritance) Sarah Scaife.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/N ... f_Scholars
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?t ... Foundation
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is a non-profit organization in the United States that opposes multiculturalism and affirmative action and seeks to counter what it considers a "liberal bias" in academia.[1]
In 2010 and 2011, its president was espousing climate contrarianism under the group's auspices, with no evident expertise in the climate science field.[2]
The Association's officers are not answerable to its membership: according to its 2009 IRS Form 990 (Part VI Section A), the Association doesn't have members (line 6), members don't elect the officers (line 7a), and the decisions of the governing body are not subject to members' approval (line 7b).[3] Mid-2000s IRS filings also indicate that the Association was controlled by 0 or 1 person.
The Association's major foundation donor is the Sarah Scaife Foundation.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/N ... f_Scholars
The Sarah Scaife Foundation is one of the Scaife Foundations overseen by the late right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum and banking fortune. The foundations give tens of millions of dollars annually to fund right-wing organizations such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, and anti-immigrant and Islamophobic organizations such as the Center for Immigration Studies and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?t ... Foundation