Current political patterns expose a deep ignorance of economic realities. This ignorance has calcified into a strong resentment towards market forces that is spilling into the political arena at the national, state, and local levels. The choice would seem to be between a government that is protectionist and a government that is progressive.Fortunately, there are a number of like-minded faculty members in the Carolinas region devoted to the cause of liberty; that is, the freedom of the individual to pursue his or her interests within the artifactual confines derived from and bound by the rule of law. Within the often insular world of academics, these individuals are eager to extend the frontier of free market ideas though their efforts are largely confined to the institutions for which they are employed. Put another way, it takes an outside interest of note to draw their attention away from the intellectual tedium engendered by the institutional incentives of education.To combat this characteristic isolation, the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas was organized for the express purpose of bringing together classical liberal scholars in the Carolinas region. Filling this lacuna in facilitating exchange among purveyors of classical liberal thought is no longer a luxury but a necessary component of the regional free market network.
