Professors' Statement in favor of voting for the Republican in the Presidential Election 2024

We — each an associate, full, or emeritus professor at an American college or university — intend to vote for the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 2024.

In every country of the world, liberty is vital. In the United States of America, it is pronounced in the country’s founding and spirit.

The Declaration of Independence exalts “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as the chief aims of good government, undergirded by the rule of law and common decency.

Also in 1776, Adam Smith expounded a presumption in favor of “allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way, upon the liberal plan of equality, liberty and justice.”

Big government is at odds with what Smith called “the liberal plan.”

We believe that, by and large, it is bad to governmentalize social affairs, and that it is good to degovernmentalize social affairs. One must oppose undue centralization in the economic realm but also threats to the precious rights of free association, religious liberty, and free speech.

We believe that Republicans are, in most instances, less inclined to governmentalize, and more inclined to degovernmentalize, than Democrats. Republicans are less inclined to threaten fundamental liberties. That is one reason why we believe that Republicans should be favored over Democrats.

The Statement was written and initiated by Daniel Klein, professor of economics, George Mason University, and Daniel J. Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science, Assumption University.

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