Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture
It is now official. The Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture, Inc. is now in (nonprofit) business. The web site is currently under construction, but the blog is up and running. Our goal at EIFC will be to work to transform the culture through the arts and humanities to make it more receptive to free market ideas. I believe in bottom-up self-organizing systems, and EIFC is designed to change the bottom to change the top.
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A nonprofit that promotes free market ideas, eh? Isn't that like a bunch of nuns handing out French ticklers?
I'm only kidding around, of course. It's not hypocritical, or even contradictory, just... Unexpected? Counterintuitive?
Apparently you haven't heard of the Cato Institute, the Acton Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Reason Foundation, or the Koch Foundation -- are are nonprofits, and all promote free market ideas. Think tanks are all nonprofits.
Sorry abou the deletion. I used the word "discuss" 3 times in 1 paragraph.
Guilty as charged. Where I'm from, a tank is something you put your fish in or roll into Czechoslovakia. I guess the reason I was curious in this regard is that I initially heard you mention the Emerson Institute during a discussion about how you were going to support yourself.
While I certainly hope to someday get it to the point where I can support myself doing only it, setting up EIFC wasn't for that purpose primarily. It's going to take a while to get enough donations to support it and the activities I want to support through it, let alone be able to support a staff.
One of the things EIFC will be doing is putting out a web journal on the arts and humanities, culture, and free markets. My brother is putting together our web site, and I already have Fred Turner submitting 3 poems, and promises of articles from Lou Marinoff and Don Beck. I also have a song contribution. So things seem to be moving along quite nicely on that front. (Coincidentally, one of the ways you can get nonprofit status from the IRS is by providing a literary service.)
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