Jerry Bowyer

1 month ago | wng.org | Jerry Bowyer

Economist Thomas Sowell is reported to have said that “social engineering is the art of replacing what works with what sounds good.” That about sums up the debate in America about tariffs. It sounds good to side with America against foreigners. It feels good, too. But that’s not what trade wars actually do. They actually force the government to side with some Americans over other Americans.

2 months ago | wng.org | Jerry Bowyer

Christian conservatives and corporate America have spent a rough several years going through a messy divorce. Maybe it started when Salesforce lived up to its name by forcing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to abandon support for a state-level version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Maybe it was Target’s decision to engage in a same-sex affair with activist groups whose demands started with bathroom privileges, moved on to book banning, and eventually to merch partnerships with a trans Satanist.

Feb 18, 2025 | wng.org | Jerry Bowyer

We are currently in the early stage of the annual shareholder meeting season, with both Apple and John Deere putting ballots before shareholders. Christians have generally been unaware of the authority they hold as shareholders to force change in companies rather than just complain about them. Just as citizens have a right to elect (or not) representatives in government and to vote on ballot questions, so shareholders have rights with respect to the companies they own. The left knows that.

Dec 3, 2024 | wng.org | Jerry Bowyer

The cascade of consumer companies with conservative customer bases turning against trendy left-wing causes is very encouraging, but we have not seen the end of the fight. Tractor Supply, John Deere, Black & Decker, and Harley-Davidson were low-hanging fruit. They were targeted for action precisely because of the misalignment between what was coming out of headquarters and what the customers thought was so extreme. I should know. I helped select a few of the companies to focus on.

Oct 15, 2024 | wng.org | Jerry Bowyer

In June 2019, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., delivered a prescient speech in which he coined the phrase “the dictatorship of woke capital,” which was picked up by Steve Soukup as the title of his thorough and thoughtful history of the phenomenon. In the speech, Cotton argued that left-wing activists were using corporations to enforce social outcomes that did not get support in the electoral process.