Welcome to Richard Moore In-Depth!
If you’re here because you believe as I do that modern progressivism poses an existential threat to our constitutional republic, then you’re in the right place. In this Substack, we’ll explore, along with daily news items:
• How a rogue bureaucracy seeks power for power’s sake, and has become the greatest institutional danger to democracy, a colossus that is Borg-like, seeking to collectivize everything for its own survival and growth;
• How progressives and their government allies have launched the biggest threat to property rights in our lifetime, and how we can protect that most precious of civil rights;
• How the powerful merger of progressives elites with corporations and government undermine our civil liberties, and how we can reclaim and sustain our freedoms.
• In addition to national analysis, we also look through a Wisconsin lens, to see just how these issues are playing out in the Badger state, and talk about how Wisconsin conservatives can regain them momentum we had during the Scott Walker years.
If you’re interested in learning about what I consider to be the most important things we conservatives have to do to truly and fully reclaim our republic, then I have something interesting for you, right now:
My Ten Most Wanted Reforms for America. Everybody has a wish list. Here’s mine.
Who I Am
I write about politics, specifically civil liberties and individual liberty, property rights, and authoritarian bureaucracy to provide conservatives and libertarians in-depth analysis and news about the current state of our constitutional republic, how we got here, and, most important, how we can defeat progressives who despise liberty and worship globalism.
My writing and essays have appeared in more than two dozen national and regional publications, including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New York Times travel section, The Washington Post, Charleston Magazine, The St. Petersburg Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and many more.
I am also a contributing partner with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Wisconsin’s leading free market and individual liberty think tank.
I am the author of The New Bossism of the American Left; Dark State: How Wisconsin Citizens Can Open the Doors to Wisconsin’s Closed Government; Journeys of Lightheartedness; How the DNR Stole Wisconsin; and the forthcoming books, Bureaucratic Bossism and Edisto: A Story of a Sea Island’s Survival.
Journeys of Lightheartedness is a Kirkus Reviews recommended book and also received a five-star Readers’ Review rating from Jack Magnus, who called his reading of the book “a remarkable and illuminating experience.”
In addition, I am the senior investigative reporter for, and former editor of, The Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Most recently, I have won the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) first-place award for investigative journalism for five years (2019-2023); the 2017 and 2019 WNA first-place awards for open government and Freedom of Information Act reporting; the 2017 WNA first-place award in enterprise journalism for my series, “Autism and Education”; and the 2019, 2022, and 2023 first-place awards for editorial writing.
My writing has appeared in college texts (Social Problems, edited by Stanley Eitzen, Allyn & Bacon, Inc.). I was a contributor to The Reform of State Legislatures (University Press of America), which The Wall Street Journal called “powerful evidence for those who wish to return to the citizen legislatures envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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Meanwhile, here are some of my most popular articles to get you started:
Taibbi, Shellenberger: Defund the censorship regime before it’s too late
The Progressive Paradox
The difficulty of being a dog in a progressive world
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