Author: Scott Shepard

White Supremacy, The Red Scare, And Moral Panics

White Supremacy, The Red Scare, And Moral Panics

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The convulsions of this summer have resolved themselves as simply the latest national moral panic: wildly exaggerated fears of largely imaginary horrors that gallop through the national psyche, spurring delusional theorizing and histrionics displays, but then pass without too much ...
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FAAMG (+T): Modern Day Monopolists Needing Broken?

FAAMG (+T): Modern Day Monopolists Needing Broken?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Conservatives and libertarians do not generally search for private-industry monopolies to “bust” under the grinding wheel of government power. Though the first Roosevelt was a Republican, he was also very much a progressive, taken by many of the same ideas ...
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How Woke CEOs Traded Our Future For BLM Approval

How Woke CEOs Traded Our Future For BLM Approval

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
An astonishing number of corporate leaders nationwide – who should all know better – have jumped to the support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization and fellow-traveling groups and have boosted claims that the riotous hordes defiling the downtowns (and sometimes the ...
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Sign This Petition: Help to Protect Viewpoint Diversity on College Campuses

ConservativeBlog.org /
One of our greatest failings, we on the conservative and libertarian right, has been to allow hard-core leftists to take over the Republic's colleges and universities.  Once Marxist, anti-Western, anti-American, radical troublemakers were indulged at our schools.  Now they run ...
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DOL vs. NPR: A Mixed Week For The Feds In Respecting Americans’ Property

DOL vs. NPR: A Mixed Week For The Feds In Respecting Americans’ Property

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
A mixed week for the federal government last week (so, better than many). The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is acting again to protect current and future pensioners from mismanagement that would cost them their retirement security. Meanwhile, National Public ...
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Rebutting Those Pushing Corporations to the Far Left

Rebutting Those Pushing Corporations to the Far Left

ConservativeBlog.org /
Readers of this blog will know that a significant coalition of leftwing activist groups, led by the As You Sow organization, has long worked to push American corporations to the left, into the political and policy realm of those who ...
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The Politicized Corporation Trap

The Politicized Corporation Trap

National Policy Analysis #682 /
Fatally Flawed Claims of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Proposals The first in a series analyzing claims by proponents of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) and stakeholder primacy policies about the feasibility and value of their proposals. ESG proponents assert ...
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Is Disney Dropping Woke Capitalism Or Doubling Down?

Is Disney Dropping Woke Capitalism Or Doubling Down?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The entertainment industry (including one-time news media outlets) has struggled in recent years. Some of the struggle arises from inevitable technological change, which has been exacerbated by COVID and the hyperventilative response. But the industry has also kneecapped itself, turning ...
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How To Turn Around Goodyear’s Very Bad Week? Viewpoint Equality

How To Turn Around Goodyear’s Very Bad Week? Viewpoint Equality

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Goodyear followed discrimination against employees with lies and evasions last week, before finally making a quasi-apology and halting retreat. Market and public reaction was swift and deep. The company will soon learn that it must do more. Only real, enforceable ...
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New SEC Rules May Force More Honesty From ESG Proponents

New SEC Rules May Force More Honesty From ESG Proponents

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
In a move likely to help investors and blunt the left’s attack on American businesses, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently finalized a rule requiring proxy advisory services to provide their clients with corporations’ rebuttals to the services’ advice ...
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