Fusionism: Classical Liberals vs. Reactionaries?
Join us in Colorado Springs for an event with Paul Mueller, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
There has been increasing confusion on the political Right over what it means to be a conservative or to be a Republican. Significant brawls have broken out on “conservative” social media and among “conservative” elected officials and activists who seem like they should be on the same team. Fusionism, an intellectual coalition between conservatives and libertarians, or between freedom and virtue, best articulates American conservatism over the last century. Its advocates believe in limited government, free markets, and a transcendent moral order.
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About the Speaker
Paul Mueller is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. Previously, Dr. Mueller taught at The King’s College in New York City.
His academic work has appeared in many journals including The Adam Smith Review, The Review of Austrian Economics, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The Journal of Private Enterprise, and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is also the author of Ten Years Later: Why the Conventional Wisdom about the 2008 Financial Crisis is Still Wrong with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dr. Mueller’s popular writing has appeared in USA Today and Fox News, as well as the Intercollegiate Review, Christian History, Adam Smith Works, and Religion and Liberty, among others.
Dr. Mueller has given talks and led colloquia for a variety of organizations including Liberty Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
Dr. Mueller is also a Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Religious Liberty in the States project at the Center for Culture, Religion, and Democracy. He owns and operates a bed and breakfast (The Abbey) in Leadville, Colorado where he lives with his wife and five children.