Scott S. Powell

Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty

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CRT: America’s Cultural Revolution

Scott S. Powell
August 20, 2021
Americans have overcome many daunting challenges throughout their nation’s past, often waking up at the 11th hour before taking action and prevailing.  Protecting our citizens’ freedom and saving America as a beacon of freedom in the world should be our top priority. 

The Ideas Behind July 4th

Scott S. Powell
July 3, 2021
Most Americans celebrating the July 4th holiday today underappreciate or have forgotten that it was the sheer power of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence that was the determining factor for the Americans in winning the War of Independence.

How China’s Economy and Trade Policies with the U.S. Have Changed

Scott S. Powell
April 16, 2021
Part two of Discovery Senior Fellow Scott Powell's three-part discussion with China expert Bill Perry. Powell and Perry discuss how the economy of China has changed and why it’s necessary for the U.S. to have trade policies that protect our intellectual property and demand fairness and reciprocity.

How China’s Economy and Trade Policies with the U.S. Have Changed

Scott S. Powell
April 16, 2021
Part two of Discovery Senior Fellow Scott Powell's three-part discussion with China expert Bill Perry. Powell and Perry discuss how the economy of China has changed and why it’s necessary for the U.S. to have trade policies that protect our intellectual property and demand fairness and reciprocity.

The Equality Act: The Next Step for the Cancel Culture?

Scott S. Powell
March 11, 2021
There has always been tension between freedom and equality in the United States. History shows us that the American vision expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to protect individual freedom and provide equal opportunity was not realized in the first decade of the Republic.

Biden’s Laptop Problem

Scott S. Powell
October 31, 2020
Oh, those pesky laptop computers, and the problems they create for corrupt politicians in election years! Just two or three weeks prior to the Presidential election in 2016, it was files on the Anthony Weiner laptop that became public as the subject of an FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton, which helped seal defeat in her 2016 Presidential bid. This year, less than two weeks before the 2020 Presidential election, information retrieved from the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop revealing international money laundering and politically corrupt deals struck with the Chinese using the Biden name — with new details breaking every day — could and should doom the Presidential candidacy of Joe Biden. Additionally, within the last week, two of Hunter Biden’s …

Why Independents will Decide the November 3rd Election

Scott S. Powell
October 13, 2020
Leadership always starts with vision. Whether or not a debate format and schedule gets back on track, President Trump needs to focus effective communication to independent voters on key domestic policy issues in the home stretch of the campaign.

Cultural Marxism and Universal Misery

Scott Powell at the 2020 Gilder Fellows Virtual Seminar
Scott S. Powell
September 21, 2020
Dr. Scott Powell, Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty, recaps traditional Marxism, describes how cultural Marxism developed, and explores where we stand today in terms of the theory’s being applied to modern social …

The 2020 Election Asks: Do You Want the People Who Believe America is Racist in Charge?

With critical race theory seeping its way into government agencies and all levels of society, the state of the nation could turn dire if it isn't stopped.
Scott S. Powell
September 18, 2020
Surveying the urban war zones, property destruction, and the shuttered businesses across so many American cities, many wonder, “Just how did we get here, and will we ever regain normalcy?” Those two questions loom over the November election, but what’s really at stake is a choice between civilization and chaos.

Crushing the Barbarians Inside the Gates

Scott S. Powell
August 14, 2020
More and more Americans in denial are being forced to face the reality that their country is on verge of being lost, with the barbarians not only inside the gates, but driving policy for the rest of us.

Crushing the Barbarians Inside the Gates

Scott S. Powell
August 14, 2020
More and more Americans in denial are being forced to face the reality that their country is on verge of being lost, with the barbarians not only inside the gates, but driving policy for the rest of us.

Washington’s Prophetic Warning

Scott S. Powell
June 27, 2020
President Trump paid tribute to George Washington when he recently delivered the 2020 convocation speech at West Point. He missed an opportunity to mention that Washington’s “Farewell Address” was a warning to the nation that America’s greatest threat would be internal, rather than external military incursions.

Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.