Author: Allen Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall is the Executive Director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.

The Convenient Projection of Samuel Freedman on Kevin Roberts: Unpacking the Biases of Progressive Paternalism

In a recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Samuel G. Freedman, a respected journalist and professor at Columbia University, turned his attention to Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation. Ostensibly a critique of Roberts, “The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts” inadvertently reveals more insight into the author’s perspective than that […]

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To Live an Intellectual Life, I Had to Leave the Ivory Tower

In the lengthening shadows of late summer 2024, as yet another academic year loomed on the horizon, an inescapable realization struck me: The moment had arrived to bid farewell to the groves of academe. The decision to leave behind my university career after nearly a decade in administration and considerably longer in teaching emerged not […]

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