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The ESG Threat January 16, 2023
The following is an overview of Law & Liberty's December forum on the question of ESG. Politics and ideology have a tendency to seep into every corner of our lives. One of the most efficient ways it has done so lately is through Environmental, Social...
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s "Sustainable" December 14, 2022
In the third of his four part review of Terrence Keeley’s Sustainable, Rupert Darwall writes that ESG rests on a vision of the free-market economy that says capitalism needs to be led by people with the right values, which raises the question: Whose ...
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s "Sustainable" December 13, 2022
ESG investment strategies can see investors giving up financial returns for no societal gain. In the second of his four part review of Terrence Keeley’s Sustainable, Rupert Darwall explores the implications of investment theory for ESG artificially c...
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s "Sustainable" December 12, 2022
ESG has its origins in a speech by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan at the Davos World Economic Forum in 1999. In the first of his four part review of Terrence Keeley’s Sustainable, Rupert Darwall shows how this created ESG’s dual mandate that account...
Corporate Wokeness Will Not Save Humanity March 31, 2021
Over a decade ago I represented my employer, a manufacturing company, at an awards ceremony. The company was being honored for its long-standing support of the arts.Corporate support of the arts did not strike me as being at all controversial. After ...
The Long March Through the Corporations March 27, 2021
That all cultural institutions in America have been taken over by the Left is beyond question. The media, the academy, Hollywood—all are now in its clutches. Conservatives still cling to talk radio, just as tightly as they do to their guns and bibles...
