Welcome

The Rockridge Institute is a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society.

Rockridge works to:

Over the last three decades, a well-organized and well-funded conservative movement has appropriated fundamental American values and language, from freedom to compassion to patriotism, and redefined them from a conservative perspective. By defining the language of public discourse, they have set the parameters of the political debate, even though a majority of Americans continue to reject much of the conservative worldview and its policy implications. The right has used the support of a dense network of think tanks, intellectuals, and policy analysts, to articulate its moral vision, disseminate it to the public, and translate it into public policies. More on the Rockridge mission.

We are grateful to the Open Society Institute, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and MoveOn.org for providing us with funding that enables us to begin our work. Several individual donors have also made important contributions. We are seeking additional funding to advance the Rockridge mission.