As president of the Conservative Union, former editor of Common Sense, Swarthmore's conservative paper, and an attendee at numerous ISI conferences, Thompson has often benefited from such groups' financial largesse. As the editor of ISI's flagship publication, Kalstein has a different assessment of conservative foundations' effectiveness and usefulness. For Thompson, however, whatever solace she might have found in attending conferences where she could share war stories with fellow beleaguered conservatives is not worth the frustration anymore. It's often said that if you want to know what an organization's true motives are, you need only follow the money. To really understand an organization's purpose, however, perhaps it's best to go right to the source.
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