Phillip Magness

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Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy — field_542d8190101fc

Phillip W. Magness is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy. He is the author of the new book The 1619 Project Myth. He has served as Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, and as Academic Program Director at the Institute for Humane Studies and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy and Government at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy.

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The 1619 Project Myth

The 1619 Project was riddled with partisan hysteria, sloppy “scholarship,” blatant errors of fact and interpretation, and, above all else, an anti-cap...

Featured on: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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