Joseph Bast – Stopping Socialism

Joseph Bast

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Joseph Bast is a director and senior fellow at The Heartland Institute. He cofounded Heartland in 1984, serving as executive director then as president and CEO until January 2018. His research and writing focuses on climate change and energy policy.

Friedrich Hayek, writing when support for capitalism was near its nadir in 1949, believed “socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength to the socialists which traditional liberalism sadly […]