Concluding the Hazlitt Fellowship

Expressing gratitude to my friends and mentors at the Foundation for Economic Education.

Over the past six months, I have had the unalloyed privilege of learning, writing, and befriending the incredible people who work at FEE. Specifically, I would like to thank Dan Sanchez, Jon Miltimore, Patrick Carroll, and Mike (Tex) Dworski for running a uniquely edifying program in which I furthered my understanding of the freedom philosophy and how to most effectively extoll it. I am also grateful to have studied alongside the other Hazlitt Fellows: Antón Chamberlain, Axel Weber, Benjamin Williams, Jess Gill, Maddox Locher, Mathew Lloyd, and Olivia Miller.

FEE’s Hazlitt Fellowship serves as an exemplar for the kind of society libertarians strive to achieve. Namely, one of thoughtful, goodfaith discussion about the most pressing economic, political, and philosophical issues confronting us. The ideological diversity within the Hazlitt cohort truly exemplifies the intrinsic and instrumental benefits of a friendly and open marketplace of ideas. It is an understatement to say that I will miss learning from and with these incredible people.

In maintaining this Substack, workshopping articles for FEE’s website, and collaborating with FEE’s stellar video production team, I believe that I have become not just a deeper thinker, persuasive writer, and creative content-creator but a much more open-minded, kind-hearted person, friend, and teammate. FEE’s emphasis on learning as an ongoing, lifelong process has taught me intellectual humility and to meet others wherever they are in their support for, and even opposition to, individual liberty and a free society. Out of all the things I’ve learned in the Hazlitt Fellowship, Dan’s lessons and writings on patience, prudence, and intellectual modesty are those for which I am most grateful.

I would be unpardonably remiss if I didn’t also express the sheer happiness that working with Abby Richardson, Matt Hampton, Matt Tabor, Oz, Paul Nelson, Sean Malone, and Tyler Brandt has brought me. Before working with FEEonline’s Shorts team, I lacked the confidence to express my thoughts on film, television, and other visual media to such a large audience. Publicly analyzing the moral, economic, and political themes of the media I love to interpret in my personal life has been a reward in and of itself. Doing so with such amazing colleagues, teachers, and friends has been a gift—so much so that I wish I had a better vocabular to more precisely describe just how great this experience has been.

For any of my readers who are looking to get involved with the Foundation for Economic Education, I implore you to email me with any and all questions. I will always be indebted to FEE for this wonderful fellowship and will be ready, willing, and eager to discuss it to anybody who is interested (or will listen!).