OPINION:
Not many years before Texas A&M University was founded by the Legislature in 1871, then-U.S. Sen. Sam Houston remarked, “I will say, without vaunting, that Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from whatever source it may.”
But what if Texas imports its oppression—on purpose? That’s what environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies amount to; they’re also an assault on our founding principles of free markets, free enterprise and free inquiry.
Nate Sharp, Ph.D., is a professor at A&M and head of accounting at the university’s Mays Business School….
