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Scott Shepard: Frustrate the New Discrimination With National Declaration Day

FEP Commentary /
Conservatives have for some time taken to quoting Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should “[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that ...
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Horace Cooper Discusses Reparations

Horace Cooper: We Need Reconciliation, Not Lies and Reparations

Media Appearance /
On the Fox News program "Jesse Watters Primetime," Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper said the critical race theory (CRT) pushed by Disney+ cartoon "The Proud Family" is further dividing Americans: The Civil War happened nearly 160 years ago. Have people ...
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Vanguard's ESG Flip-Flop Is Phony

Vanguard’s ESG Flip-Flop Is Phony

Free Enterprise Project /
In his latest commentary for Real Clear Markets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard argues that the recent backpedaling of ESG by major corporations is superficial. “Don’t allow a few cosmetic changes to convince you that we’re winning. The battle [against ESG] has just ...
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Hurricane Ian Proved That Apolitical Corporate Activism Is Possible

Hurricane Ian Proved That Apolitical Corporate Activism Is Possible

Free Enterprise Project /
In his latest commentary for Real Clear Markets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard explains how the corporate response to Hurricane Ian showed that neutral, apolitical corporate activism is possible. "My guess is that the companies won’t see anyone at all protesting their actions ...
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American Airlines DEI

Free Enterprise Project July 2022 Newsletter

American Airlines ‘Absolutely’ Considers Skin Color And Sex When Hiring Pilots - Illegal discrimination is evil in all situations, and equity-based discrimination is still just discrimination. In picking pilots, it’s straight up insane. In its eagerness to stay woke despite ever-growing evidence that woke leads to failure, American Airlines is endangering lives and trashing its reputation. ...
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Is the Tide Turning on Corporate Wokeness?

Is the Tide Turning on Corporate Wokeness?

ConservativeBlog.org /
“More than a few executives appear to be glimpsing the high costs of politicized corporate management,” writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in his latest commentary for Real Clear Markets. “Woke is revealing itself as a barnacle, and companies are responding accordingly,” Scott ...
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Is the Woke Corporate 'Worm' Finally Turning?

Is the Woke Corporate ‘Worm’ Finally Turning?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
More than a few executives appear to be glimpsing the high costs of politicized corporate management. A chief driver of these revelations is surely the rolling market correction that has characterized 2022. At one point last week, the Nasdaq was ...
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Equity Businessman Frustrated

Equity Theory As a (Terrible) Strategy for Growth

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Many corporate executives have claimed that embracing “equity” theory at their companies (and, in the case of investment-house CEOs, trying to force equity on companies whether they like it or not) is in the objective, demonstrable best interest of shareholders ...
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The Law Does Not Shield Woke Corporate Execs

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“Corporate law provides a ready-built method for policing, at least to some degree, corporate executive self-dealing or incompetence. All that is required now is a modest extension of existing doctrine and precedent,” writes FEP Director Scott Shepard in his latest commentary ...
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Sneaky businessman Executive Self Dealing

A Legal Test for Evaluating Modern Corporate-Executive Self Dealing

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Proponents of stakeholder capitalism and ESG initiatives invariably claim that they are acting for the neutral, objective, bipartisan interests of everyone. Some weeks ago in these pages I considered why this is simply impossible, and attempted to demonstrate that whatever proponents may ...
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