Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage

The Meese Center is basically empty now.

Last night, Kevin Roberts told the Heritage staff that two people would be directing the Meese Center. National Review reported:

The organization's president, Kevin Roberts, sent an email to staff Sunday evening informing them of the departures. "We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes," he wrote. Roberts also told staff in the email that the organization's chief economist, EJ Antoni, will now serve as acting director of the organization's Center for Data Analysis and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and that policy expert Cully Stimson will now lead the organization's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies on an "interim basis, with assistance from Hans von Spakovsky."

I just spoke with Cully, who told me that both he and Hans resigned from the Heritage Foundation. At this point, there are only a few people left at the Meese Center. It exists in name only.

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[Brett Bellmore]

"At this point, there are only a few people left at the Meese Center. It exists in name only."

Ah, maybe you meant Heritage, not Meese?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

The quote says

"We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes," he wrote. Roberts also told staff in the email that the organization's chief economist, EJ Antoni, will now serve as acting director of the organization's Center for Data Analysis and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and that policy expert Cully Stimson will now lead the organization's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies on an "interim basis, with assistance from Hans von Spakovsky."

[Brett Bellmore]

I see. The Heritage foundation has a Meese center which I, not Blackman, had confused with the Meese Institute.

OK, no mistake there.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

I didn't see it that way. I was just guessing the center exists in both places while personnel shift. Maybe they ought to call it the Heisenberg center until they're ready to be observed again.

[MarkJawz]

Bandwagon is getting crowded.

[Roger S]

Heritage should be glad to get rid of these creeps.

Recapitulating, Nick Fuentes expressed an option that Jews have too much influence in the USA. Tucker Carlson interviewed Fuentes, and they pointedly disagreed on many issues. Heritage refused to disavow Carlson, and then apologized for refusing. Now the Jews have organized a campaign against Heritage.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Let me rephrase that:

Nick Fuentes bragged about hating Jews and liking Hitler. Tucker Carlson wasted time lobbing softball questions which resulted in more anti-semitism. Heritage's president praised Tucker Carlson and said there's nothing wrong with giving an anti-Semite Hitler fanboi a platform to proclaim his hatred of Jews and fondness for Hitler.

People objected.

You objected to people objecting and blamed it on the Jews.

[Zayphar]

Both accurate and devastating.

In my childishness I would instead tell Mr. Roger S to 'get bent, creep'.

[Sarcastr0]

Well summarized.

[Roger S]

Let's accept your version. This is all still a big overreaction.
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“By an overwhelming vote margin, Tucker Carlson has been named StopAntisemitism’s 2025 Antisemite of the Year,” StopAntisemitism founder and executive director Liora Rez told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/21/us-news/tucker-carlson-named-antisemite-of-the-year-by-jewish-organization/

[bernard11]

Don't worry, Roger. Maybe you'll make it next year, though the Republican competition seems to be getting stiffer.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Now explain this: "Now the Jews have organized a campaign against Heritage."

Sorry bud, you can't walk that back. You probably wouldn't have the guts to call it a Freudian slip.

[Roger S]

You tell me. Are all those resignations coincidence, or is there an organized campaign against Heritage? And if so, who is behind it?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Why does it have to be coordinated? When a fire alarm goes off and people run for the exits, are Jews behind that too?

When a rainstorm surprises people who run for shelter and pull their collars up and hold briefcases over their heads, is that another nefarious Jewish plot?

When a plane crashes and a lot of fire trucks and ambulances rush to the scene, did the Jews sabotage the plane?

When a tone deaf interview upsets people, and a tone-deaf non-apology upsets more people, was that a carefully orchestrated Jewish plot? I'm surprised your paranoid anti-Semite brain didn't think of that first thing and disassociate yourself from those dastardly Jews Fuentes, Carlson, and Roberts, all conspiring to destroy the Heritage Foundation.

[Roger S]

Heritage has taken many positions that were far more controversial that a "tone-deaf non-apology". No, this is clearly an orchestrated power play.

The resignation letters do not even make much sense, and do not clearly explain what their disagreement with Heritage is.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Now you're really reaching. Briefcases make lousy umbrellas; why do people hold them above their heads in sudden rainstorms? Is that because the Jews told them to?

You jump from "I think this is not an outrage" to "therefore the Jews did it" without any evidence better than "there have been worse outrages".

Name them. Remember to show why the Jews did not orchestrate a coordinated response to them. Show your homework.

[Mitch]

Such an overreaction. It's not as if any Jews have been massacred while practicing their religion THIS WEEK.

[MarkJawz]

It's very telling that the same people who think blacks and Hispanics should be proportionally represented in every facet of American life don't have an issue with Jews being disproportionately represented in positions of influence, as long as they are left-leaning.

[bernard11]

the organization's chief economist, EJ Antoni, will now serve as acting director of the organization's Center for Data Analysis and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,

EJ Antoni???

This EJ Antoni?

From Wired

“I've been on several programs with him at this point and have been impressed by two things: his inability to understand basic economics and the speed with which he's gone MAGA,” Dave Herbert, an economist at the conservative American Institute for Economic Research, wrote on X.

[steve sturm]

Hi Prof, I was going to buy the guide but don’t want to give Heritage any money (and no more donations, either). Do you have an extra copy you’d like to sell? It doesn’t even have to be signed (although I wouldn’t turn it down).

[actuallyinpractice97]

As much fun as it is to watch Heritage fall apart at the seams, the Guide to the Constitution was immensely helpful the one time I found myself litigating a constitutional issue.