Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
Against collectivist impulses, the defense of freedom, personal responsibility, and the moral, political, legal, and economic foundations of a free society is ever necessary. Protecting the American experiment in ordered liberty is a debt that we owe to the past, and a challenge to pursue in the future. We examine the following issues in this area: the case for free trade vs. protectionism, individualism vs. the new collectivists (DEI/Critical Theory/Marxism/Social Democracy/Economic Nationalism/etc.), shareholder capitalism vs. ESG and stakeholder capitalism, foreign policy for a free society, and the foundations and first principles of freedom and free markets.
Research Publications for Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
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Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Public Choice
Authors: RM Yonk, D Waugh
Publication: Cryptocurrency Concepts, Technology, and Applications, 2023
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AI ≠ UBI: Income Portfolio Adjustment to Technological Transformation
Authors: RE Wright, A Przegalinska
Publication: Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the …, 2023
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Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
Authors: P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
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” The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: WH Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism
Authors: PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: The Independent Review 26 (4), 533-552, 2022
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Herb Childress. The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission: Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2019 …
Authors: PW Magness
Publication: The Journal of Value Inquiry 56 (2), 313-318, 2022
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The danger of deplorable reactions
Authors: PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: WH Hutt on liberalism, populism, and the constitutional political economy of …, 2022
Articles
1619, Anyone?
“Phil will next take up the 1619 Project at the Soho Forum on April 20, addressing the resolution: The New York Times book The 1619 Project, and the Hulu video series based on it, are important contributions to our understanding of slavery and the role of African Americans in American history.” ~ James R. Harrigan
The University of Washington Tries to Squelch Dissident Professor, Gets Sued
“If university administrators can just pass the cost of lawsuits along to the taxpayers, they will never respect the constitutional rights of faculty who dissent from their ideology.” ~ George Leef
ESG Investing: Today’s Virtue of Tomorrow’s Taboo?
“In the same way that society destroys statues erected to commemorate yesterday’s heroes, EGS investors run the risk of being judged harshly by future citizens who have the benefit of hindsight.” ~ Ramon P. DeGennaro
Downsizing the Administrative State
“To more fully restore the separation of powers intended by the founders, SCOTUS must soundly repudiate the Chevron Doctrine, and assert the primacy of an alternative.” ~ David Gillette & Warren Barge
An All-Electric-Vehicle Industry? Really?
“Our future with electric vehicles will have some unexpected bumps in the road, too. We see some already — problems getting critical materials, attracting consumers, building a national charging network. But at least we know the federal government will be with us.” ~ Jane Shaw Stroup
Will 2024 Be the Ultimate Expressive Voting Election?
“Campaigning almost solely for expressive votes in a vastly divided country threatens to put a prudent government out of the question, and as Jeremy Collier wrote, ‘Prudence is the necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.'” ~ Gary M. Galles
