The fight against ESG & Global Governance | Allen Mendenhall & Kate Wand

On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand spoke with Allen Mendenhall, author, lawyer, Associate Dean and Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University.

He teaches a free market, non-woke business course that has gained significant clout, leading anti-woke ESG advocates to seek his aid and testimony for an anti-ESG investment bill.

His advocacy for economic freedom led to the banking crony ESG profiteers to go on a coordinated witch-hunt against him to try and get him cancelled.

Allen’s story attests to the power of the Individual. They spoke about how ESG is a segue into global governance, the growing decentralized resistance against hyper-centralization, and how one person taking a principled stand is a great equalizer against the most corrupt concentrations of power.

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0:00 - intro

1:20 - anti-ESG business program

3:43 - policy debates around ESG

6:33 - the Witchhunt begins

9:55 - Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard lobbyists

12:49 - The risk of bank runs

14:50 - Global Coordination of Financial Institutions

20:10 - Sri Lanka as a Target

24:33 - Incentives for ESG

27:19 - Stakeholder Capitalism

30:22 - Unprecedented Power

32:50 - CBDCs & ESG

37:30 - Decentralization vs Centralization

42:47 - The Power of the Individual

48:56 - All Powerful Nation State Parallels

52:05 - Milton Friedman vs. Klaus Schwab

54:21 - USA vs Europe for ESG

58:11 - The Nation State & Global Concatenation

1:00:00 - The outcome of Allen's battle

1:03:12 - Lord of the Rings parallels

1:08:46 - Last thoughts

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Milton Friedman's essay: https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html