Newsletters of the 1970s
Election reform dominated TCF newsletters in the 1970s, with TCF scholars advocating for financing Congressional campaigns and televising public sessions of Congress (a suggestion that was later fulfilled with the advent of CSPAN). But newsletters weren’t entirely focused on elections. One particularly prescient newsletter—from 1973!—warned that computer technology could threaten individual privacy. The words might easily have been penned by current senior fellow Barton Gellman.
