Author: Scott Shepard

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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How To Apply Reciprocity To Race-Based Accusations

How To Apply Reciprocity To Race-Based Accusations

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Americans, especially traditionally middle-class Americans, are by and large likeable people who like to be liked.  Our friendliness, along with our self-confidence, loudness, and sneakers-and-ballcaps attire (and, sadly, our girth), set us apart worldwide.  As a corollary, we hate to ...
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Genuine Objectivity Could Save Some News Industry Players

Genuine Objectivity Could Save Some News Industry Players

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Conditions in the news industry are grim. Even before the COVID crisis, the industry was in deep trouble. The pandemic and shutdown have made things worse.  And now some outlets’ responses to the demands of the sometimes-so-intensely-peaceful-they-riot “protestors” promises to ...
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When Will ABC’s False Reporting Require Daddy Disney’s Discipline?

When Will ABC’s False Reporting Require Daddy Disney’s Discipline?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
ABC, like the rest of the former news industry, has devolved from often left-slanted reporting to outright leftwing propaganda. So goes the modern American media. But at what point does this divergence between claimed truth and real fiction violate parent-company ...
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Some Questions For BOA’s Billion-Dollar Brian Moynihan

Some Questions For BOA’s Billion-Dollar Brian Moynihan

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Brian Moynihan, the monumentally self-impressed CEO of Bank of America (BoA), announced last week that the bank would be “committing” $1 billion over the next four years to “assist people and communities of color” in view of “racial injustices.” At ...
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CEOs Need To Focus On Rebuilding Shareholder Value, Not Rebranding The Redskins

CEOs Need To Focus On Rebuilding Shareholder Value, Not Rebranding The Redskins

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The CEOs of some of the biggest American corporations, including PepsiCo, FedEx and Bank of America, spent the recent Independence Day weekend trying to cancel the names of the Washington Redskinsand Cleveland Indians. The qualifications of these CEOs to force other organizations ...
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If You Want To Defund Something, Start With Higher Education

If You Want To Defund Something, Start With Higher Education

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
If we’re going to defund major American institutions, the place to start is not the police but higher education. America’s colleges and universities have largely abandoned their genuine mission in favor of polemics and proselytization, while slamming the door to ...
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