Allen Mendenhall

1 month ago | 1819news.com | Allen Mendenhall

The Austrian Economics Research Conference (AERC) convenes this weekend at Auburn’s Ludwig von Mises Institute. I typically attend this scholarly gathering but must forgo it this year due to obligations in Texas. The Mises Institute remains one of Alabama’s underappreciated intellectual assets, overlooked even by many Auburn students and locals who seem unaware of this significant resource in their immediate vicinity. The Mises Institute was “founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H.

1 month ago | 1819news.com | Allen Mendenhall

The Auburn University men’s basketball team may have lost to its rival Alabama Crimson Tide last weekend, but it has secured the SEC regular season championship and remains well positioned as it enters the high-stakes SEC tournament and the unpredictable March Madness. My grandfather, Julius “Jay” Porter Farish – “Papa” to his grandchildren – would have loved watching this team.

1 month ago | mindingthecampus.org | Allen Mendenhall

In the lengthening shadows of late summer 2024, as yet another academic year loomed on the horizon, an inescapable realization struck me: The moment had arrived to bid farewell to the groves of academe. The decision to leave behind my university career after nearly a decade in administration and considerably longer in teaching emerged not merely from the magnetic pull of a compelling opportunity at the Heritage Foundation, though that institution’s offer proved irresistible.

1 month ago | 1819news.com | Allen Mendenhall

In Florida, a commonwealth of considerable conservative experimentation, Gov. Ron DeSantis has executed what can only be described as an intellectual insurgency within the state’s pedagogical archipelago. He has installed five individuals on the University of West Florida’s governing conclave whose pedigrees suggest a familiarity with principles preceding the progressive capture of America’s higher education citadels. My friends Adam Kissel, Gates Garcia and Scott Yenor are among those appointed.

1 month ago | troymessenger.com | Allen Mendenhall

Published 8:16 am Thursday, March 6, 2025 By Allen MendenhallAllen Mendenhall is Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University and Executive Director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.