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"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda

For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/

These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network

And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society

Excellent investigations of these groups include

• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0

• Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores

• Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/

I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215

Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.

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