To put things into perspective: the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) had a grant budget of 78 million dollars in 2024. Mellon spent 540 million in grants that year. Mellon, a highly politicized private nonprofit, has a near total monopoly on humanities grant making. 2/
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This piece by @Tyler_A_Harper is an important monopoly story, but it’s not about a corporation. It’s about the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the dominant funder of humanities that corrupted academia with a force-fed woke scholar/activist model.