Trump-lover Chris Rufo claimed on Twitter that FAIR is a coalition of liberals, moderates, and conservatives in defense of the American principles of free expression, civil rights, and equality under the law, but the Board of Advisors in fact skews very heavily to the right.
There are thirty-one Advisors, and eleven of them are associated with a Koch-funded organization (AEI, City Journal, FIRE, Spiked), seven of them are authors for the race science-promoting Quillette (some are both Koch and Quillette) and almost all the rest are associated with right-wing organizations and causes, including at least two hard-core Trump supporters.
There are probably more right-wing and race science connections that I missed. I will update the connections of the FAIR Board of Advisors as I discover them.
It looks like another example of wingnut welfare, along with the sleazy IDW campaign to brand right-wing race science as "liberal" and is most likely funded at least in part by Charles Koch, who is already funding a third of the Advisors.
I guess James Your Mom Lindsay really is in the IDW/Quillette doghouse since his two fellow grifters Boghossian and Pluckrose made the team but he didn't.
Left to right, top to bottom:
1. Ayyan Hirsi Ali - right-wing anti-Muslim and on the Koch payroll via the American Enterprise Institute. Named member of the Intellectual Dark Web.
2. Peter Boghossian - right-wing grifter, recently attacked Pinkerite's founder, has the possible distinction of appearing as a guest more than anybody else on racist Stephan Molyneux's show. Quillette author. Business partner of Christian nationalist right-wing extremist Michael O'Fallon.
3. Liang-Fang Chao - "Computer Scientist" - Koch/Quillette/race science, rightwing connections unknown.
4. Melissa Chen - Quillette supporter. UPDATE: writer for conservative The Spectator, Managing Director of Ideas Beyond Borders, which has, on its board of directors - inevitably - Steven Pinker.
5. Daryl Davis - Trump supporter. Not a Trump supporter, I was wrong about that. It's disturbing that Davis has lent his legitimately good-guy persona to FAIR which is full of rightwingers and race pseudoscience supporters and Koch-funded hacks.
6. Andrew Doyle - talentless right-wing satirist, paid by Koch to run the Spiked "Unsafe Space Tour."
7. Lisa Feldsher - runs a PR firm with many corporate clients. Koch/Quillette/race science, rightwing connections unknown.
8. Kmele Foster - right-wing, anti Black Lives Matter, on the advisory council of the Koch-funded FIRE.
9. Tim van Gelder - "entrepreneur, philosopher" - Koch/Quillette/race science, rightwing connections unknown.
10. Samantha Harris - contributor at the Federalist Society, Senior Fellow at the Koch-funded FIRE. Connected to Maud Maron somehow. Author at Quillette. Lawyer of Joshua T. Katz, member of the Academic Freedom Alliance.
11. Jason D. Hill - self-declared conservative, Ayn Rand fan and author at the far-right Federalist. Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, founded by right-wing extremist David Horowitz.
12. Nathan Hoffman - Republican operative working against the public school system.
13. Coleman Hughes - Koch employee via City Journal, Quillette author, apologist for race science.
14. Zaid Jilani - former left-winger and author at Quillette.
15. Megyn Kelly - known for saying Santa Claus and Jesus were white when she was a star at Fox.
16. Alexander Lloyd - fan of Quillette and members of the IDW, Bitcoin bro.
17. Glenn Loury - right-wing, Quillette author, Koch-funded.
18. Maud Maron - called a racist by the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid
19. John McWhorter - author at Quillette, supported by Koch at AEI and City Journal.
20. Steven Pinker. Of course.
21. Helen Pluckrose - grifter, cozy with right-wing Christian nationalist extremists Sovereign Nations, anti-feminist. Interviewed and heavily promoted by Quillette.
22. Robert Pondescio - author at The Federalist, fan of the work of Charles Murray.
23. Wilfred Reilly - conservative author at far-right Regnery Publishing.
24. Ian Rowe - Koch employee via AEI.
25. Chris Rufo - rabidly pro-Trump, Koch employee via City Journal.
26. Michael Shermer - named member of the Intellectual Dark Web, creep.
27. Abigail Shrier - Quillette author, rabidly anti-trans.
28. Eli Steele - Quillette author, Koch employee via City Journal.
29. Andrew Sullivan - right-winger, promoted The Bell Curve, race science promoter.
30. Bari Weiss - right-winger, promoter of the Intellectual Dark Web and pals with same.
31. Thomas Chatterton Williams - chateau bouncer, Koch employee via AEI
