Commentary We live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American century beginning in the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars that he donated to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry that he almost single-handedly built. Likewise, Henry Ford’s trust, the Ford Foundation, now spends millions of dollars on climate change—as if the automobile was a sinister invention. And now we learn from the Chronicle of Philanthropy that the Hewlett Foundation and a partner foundation will donate some $40 million “to five academic institutions” to “rethink” the benefits of free markets. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were two of America’s most outstanding entrepreneurs, co-founding their iconic computer company Hewlett-Packard out of a garage in Northern California. According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the purpose of the foundation grants is …