The Wall Street Journal has published my new commentary, titled "Ed Feulner, Ed Meese and the Heritage Foundation's Exodus." This follows on my resignation from Heritage last month. Here is the introduction:
Rome didn't fall in a day, and Heritage didn't fall in a tweet. Kevin Roberts's bungling defense of Tucker Carlson might have triggered the mass resignation of scholars from what was once America's leading conservative think tank, but this exodus was years in the making. The Heritage Foundation made a strategic choice to adapt to the current political moment by refusing to exclude anyone from its boundless tent. That led Heritage to depart from its principles and embrace people who have no credible claim to conservatism, even at the expense of pushing out the brains that built the foundation. By obsessing over "what time it is," Heritage lost sight of hard lessons learned from the past.
And from the conclusion:
