Paul Tice Reveals What ESG is Really About
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests: Miles Smith, Paul Tice, & Jason Peters
Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith, assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College, about America’s steady loss of confidence and his article “Decline is a Choice.” Paul Tice, Wall Street veteran and cultural commentator, explains the long-term dangers of ESG investing and his new book The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing will Crater the Global Financial System. And Jason Peters, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, introduces us to the Kentuckian poet and essayist Wendell Berry and discusses one of his most well-known works, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.6 | The first phase of ESG has been through moral suasion that people have been, again, suckered into the trade. |
| 0:32.3 | Right now it's tough to find the exit, and the problem that's coming between now and 2030 is that regulations, |
| 0:38.5 | both here as well as in Europe in particular, are now going to cement this whole agenda |
| 0:42.9 | into place. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of |
| 0:49.7 | the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Paul Tice, author of the new book, The Race to Zero, |
| 0:56.2 | how ESG investing will crater the global financial system. We'll talk with Paul about his book |
| 1:01.5 | coming up a little bit later on in today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Miles Smith. He |
| 1:06.9 | is assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College. Dr. Smith, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:12.0 | Thanks for having me, Scott. Discussing today a recent essay at the Epic Times. Decline is a choice. |
| 1:19.9 | Find it at the EpicTimes.com, E-P-O-C-H-Times.com. So are we right to be a little concerned or focused on the potential decline of the |
| 1:33.8 | United States? Well, every generation of Americans confronts this question in their own way. |
| 1:39.5 | Is their decline? There's a new book out recently that asked, did the founders think that their |
| 1:45.1 | republic was in decline in the 1790s, right? Less than a decade after the Constitution has signed. |
| 1:51.9 | So I think the answer is every generation has to ask this question for itself, and every |
| 1:57.5 | generation has to commit to perpetuating constitutional freedom. |
| 2:01.9 | So we're not alone at all in asking this question. |
| 2:06.5 | How have perhaps we answered this question previously or responded to this question previously? |
| 2:11.8 | I think that we've responded by a continual process of asking where we are going astray from our constitutional |
| 2:20.9 | liberties. Sometimes there's correction. Sometimes there's not. So there's no uniform answer that's |
| 2:26.9 | given. That's why we have something like, for example, the New Deal or the Great Society. So |
| 2:32.7 | every generation answers it differently. |
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