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The Radical FundBook

by John Fabian Witt

Who uses, recommends or left The Radical Fund, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jon Favreau
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It's out next week, but I just read the long essay um by the author in the New York Times, uh John Fabian Wit, the radical fund, how a band of visionaries and a million dollars upended America about a very wealthy philanthropist who decided to uh donate all of his money to progressive causes back in the 1920s and sort of seated the ground for a lot of the most progressive policies

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jon-favreau.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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