Phil Magness

holds the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the Independent Institute in Oakland. Previously he held the F. A. Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. As an economic historian of the United States and the wider Atlantic world, he has written on the political economy of slavery, the history of taxation and inequality, and the intellectual history of classical liberalism. He is the author, among others, of The 1619 Project: A Critique and, with Jason Brennan, Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education.