Tag: Free Enterprise Project Commentaries

White Supremacy, The Red Scare, And Moral Panics

White Supremacy, The Red Scare, And Moral Panics

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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?

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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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Is Progressive Insurance Hostile Toward the Unborn?

Is Progressive Insurance Hostile Toward the Unborn?

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Progressive Insurance CEO Tricia Griffith seems very proud of her company’s work with an obscure organization called “As You Sow.” She shouldn’t be. While the group’s name is an ode to biblical language, As You Sow is no religious faction. As You ...
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How Woke CEOs Traded Our Future For BLM Approval

How Woke CEOs Traded Our Future For BLM Approval

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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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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

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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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Is Disney Dropping Woke Capitalism Or Doubling Down?

Is Disney Dropping Woke Capitalism Or Doubling Down?

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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

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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

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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

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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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Until Amazon Stops Letting A Hate Group Run Amazon Smile, Jeff Bezos’s Pledge To Congress Means Nothing

Until Amazon Stops Letting A Hate Group Run Amazon Smile, Jeff Bezos’s Pledge To Congress Means Nothing

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Four of the world’s most powerful tech CEOs — Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — came to Capitol Hill, via a live video feed in a highly publicized congressional hearing, to ostensibly ...
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