What do I have to do to get the MacArthur Foundation to recognize my singular genius?

Oh, that's a good question.

Um, and just so folks understand what these Genius Grants are, I mean, they're technically MacArthur Fellows, right? But these are...

Um, you can think of them as, uh, the recipients as being just anybody in the intellectual field, right? So these are scientists, artists, historians, researchers, musicians, you know, physicists, those kind...

Any, a- across the board intellectual awards, and they get a $800,000 five-year grant from the, from the foundation to pursue their work.

It's unrestricted.

They say there's no strings attached.

The, uh, Marguerite Casey Foundation would be the European United Left, Nordic Green Left with the, like, com- with the, the basically the communists.

What do I have to do to get the MacArthur Foundation to recognize my singular genius?

Oh, that's a good question.

Um, and just so folks understand what these Genius Grants are, I mean, they're technically MacArthur Fellows, right? But these are...

Um, you can think of them as, uh, the recipients as being just anybody in the intellectual field, right? So these are scientists, artists, historians, researchers, musicians, you know, physicists, those kind...

Any, a- across the board intellectual awards, and they get a $800,000 five-year grant from the, from the foundation to pursue their work.

It's unrestricted.

They say there's no strings attached.

The, uh, Marguerite Casey Foundation would be the European United Left, Nordic Green Left with the, like, com- with the, the basically the communists.

That's when he held the line and said, no, no, we won't represent them.

Yeah.

That came from Rabinowitz's memoir, the way he told it.

It actually involved domestic drug dealing cases, cases where, I think it was out of Virginia even, where The firm had been approached, and this is what ultimately, as Rabinowitz tells it, this is a little down the line, but this is how he kind of retired from the firm, basically, was that there was some question whether the firm would start to represent drug dealers in criminal defense cases, which is a very traditional and lucrative business for many defense attorneys, but he didn't want to do that.

Rabinowitz was a... principled Marxist-Leninist, I guess, and was willing to represent terrorists and murderers and any of those kind of people, but drug dealers were no.

And that's how he tells it in his memoir, which I don't know if I've plugged that yet, but if anybody who's listening is is interested in the history of this sort of thing.

The memoir is called and very aptly called Unrepentant Leftist.

And they were anti-American, but not explicitly Marxist-Leninist.

That's when he held the line and said, no, no, we won't represent them.

Yeah.

That came from Rabinowitz's memoir, the way he told it.

It actually involved domestic drug dealing cases, cases where, I think it was out of Virginia even, where The firm had been approached, and this is what ultimately, as Rabinowitz tells it, this is a little down the line, but this is how he kind of retired from the firm, basically, was that there was some question whether the firm would start to represent drug dealers in criminal defense cases, which is a very traditional and lucrative business for many defense attorneys, but he didn't want to do that.

Rabinowitz was a... principled Marxist-Leninist, I guess, and was willing to represent terrorists and murderers and any of those kind of people, but drug dealers were no.

And that's how he tells it in his memoir, which I don't know if I've plugged that yet, but if anybody who's listening is is interested in the history of this sort of thing.

The memoir is called and very aptly called Unrepentant Leftist.

And they were anti-American, but not explicitly Marxist-Leninist.

And those countries of concern couldn't be changed except by a separate act of Congress.

Uh, you know, I don't know about that.

I'd have to, I think the statute might, and I'm going just off pure memory here that the, the relevant statute might allow some regulatory, um, additions to that.

I don't remember, but, um, But it makes reference to those, and that would be the difference there.

So that's a disclosure one, and that one's pretty straightforward.

The other foreign funding one is more interesting, and I think would be more of...

So it's a little bit complicated in its wording.

And a bunch of them just don't exist anymore.