ABSTRACT
It would be unjust for the government to use tax dollars to fund the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in D.C. There are two main reasons: (1) Heritage's ideological stance means it is not robustly truth-tracking: it's not an institution structured to find the truth wherever it lies; (2) given that much of the population at large doesn't share Heritage's ideology, it is not justifiable from the perspective of a pluralistic liberal state to coercively tax people to fund it. Here, I explore whether these concerns apply to some parts of the modern American university as well.
