Stephen Soukup
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| Role: | Vice president, publisher, partner, content creator, product developer, editor, author, and analyst |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Education: | •University of Kansas •University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
Stephen R. Soukup is "the senior commentator, Vice President, and Publisher of The Political Forum, an 'independent research provider' that delivers research and consulting services to the institutional investment community, with an emphasis on economic, social, political, and geopolitical events likely to have an impact on the financial markets in the United States and abroad."[1]
Soukup is the author of "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business". The book "explores the rise of progressivism as a cultural force and explains why corporations increasingly are taking sides in politics."[2][1] It was named on of Wall Street Journal's best political books of 2021.[3]
Career
Education
- Bachelor's degree, political science/history, University of Kansas, 1993
- Master's degree, political science and American government and public policy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1996
Work
- 2003-present: Vice president, publisher, partner, content creator, product developer, editor, author, and analyst at The Political Forum
- 2021: Author of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
- 2014-present: Fellow in culture and economy, writer, and content creator at Culture of Life Foundation
- 2001-2003: Associate analyst at Lehman Brothers
- 1996-2000: Associate analyst at Prudential Financial
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
In its end-of-the-year roundup of the “Best Books of 2021,” The Wall Street Journal identified The Dictatorship of Woke Capital as one of its Top-5 books in politics. In his summary of the book, the Journal’s Barton Swaim wrote the following:[3]
| “ | A great many Americans over the past several years have realized to their horror that American corporations are no longer, if they ever were, the broadly conservative and patriotic institutions of midcentury yore. Their managers are terrified of criticism by activist investors, and they often appear more solicitous of transnational NGOs than of their own investors. How did it happen? Stephen R. Soukup answers the question in “The Dictatorship of Woke Capital.” The book is a touch overwritten—Mr. Soukup makes no attempt to hide his dislike for the objects of his criticism—but it is an exceptionally useful presentation of the intellectual origins and present-day lunacies of woke capitalism. The most enlightening parts of the book deal with multibillion-dollar asset-management companies such as BlackRock and State Street. The leaders of these firms embrace a variety of radical ideologies—broadly known as “sustainability” and ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance)—and routinely use their massive financial leverage to push publicly traded companies to alter their policies according to progressive political ideals. These same companies, meanwhile, are happy to invest in Chinese corporations under the control of a communist government that spurns all those progressive ideals. Which raises the question: Who’s dictating to whom?[4] | ” |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Encounter Books, "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital," February 23, 2021
- ↑ Competitive Enterprise Institute, "Got Woke: A Review of ‘The Dictatorship of Woke Capital’," April 13, 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wall Street Journal, "The Best Books of 2021: Politics," December 10, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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