Burt Folsom, a professor, author on the free market system and a guest scholar at the Heritage Foundation will address Ada County's Lincoln Day banquet Thursday night.
Folsom's latest book is, "New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America."
The annual banquet is expected to draw as many as 1,000 people to the Boise Centre. Tickets are $49 in advance and $60 at the door. Social hour is at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7.
Folsom, a Nebraska native, has a bachelor's from Indiana University, a master’s from the University of Nebraska and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at Murray State University, Northwood University, and currently holds the Charles Kline Chair in History and Management at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich.
Folsom also worked for several years at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Center for the American Idea. He has published six books, including "Myth of the Robber Barons," which explores the role of market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs.
Folsom also serves as Senior Historian at the Foundation for Economic Education and writes a quarterly column for the foundation's publication, The Freeman.
His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Business History Review, Investor’s Business Daily and the Washington Times. He has appeared on the Glenn Beck Show, FOX & Friends, and C-Span. On talk radio, he is a frequent guest of Rusty Humphries and Michael Medved.
He and his wife, Anita, write for their blog at BurtFolsom.com.
The Ada County Lincoln Day Banquet is Idaho’s oldest Lincoln Day event, held each February around Presidents Day.
Reservations are available through Thursday. Reserve tables and sponsorship tables are also available. Table reservations can be made by contacting Cameron Arial at 559-4353. For individual reservations, call Cheryl Miller at 890-6425. Tickets can also be purchased at AdaCoLincolnDay@yahoo.com.
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Folsom agenda is a religious
Folsom agenda is a religious based political advocate, his extremely narrow point of view is absolutely biased. Folsom’s biased intolerant conservative works take partial quotes, out-of-context & reapplies as he see’s fit to promote his revisionist conservative history.
Folsum is masquerading as historical scholar.
Any serious student of history or government policy are aware this wing-nut's work is to create and validate a conservative revisionist history to falsely validate conservative politics
Limbaugh’s DittoBots & worshipers of the Ayn Rand cult, Idaho tea baggers will love this wacko is for you.
All of your psychotic conservative preconceived notions will be reinforced & validated without any of those pesky things like historical facts or the real world reality to get in the way of your parallel universe.
Folsom is connected with the Free Enterprise Institute, who promotes Burkean conservative principals rejecting notions of the rights of the individual, individualism & social progress.
Beware Idahoans Beware
Scholar at the Heritage Foundation?
Scholar and Heritage Foundation are mutually exclusive terms. Scholarship implies a certain open mindedness; an effort to obtain knowledge; free inquiry, as opposed to effort to justify preconceived notions. Wealthy far right wing foundations and individuals provide money, lots of money, so right wing "think tanks" who higher "scholars," intellectual dead beats like d'Sousa, Goldberg ad nauseam, who write their clap trap, and then the right wing press trumpets from the roof tops, and the corporate media (often funders of this stuff) picks it up and junk that wouldn't pass the laugh test at a proper university become "conservative scholarship. Its a strange world.