David Theroux: Gentleman, Scholar, Entrepreneur

To anybody who knew David Theroux, particularly those that labored with him, his current passing got here as a shock. As that shock provides strategy to grief, we now have a second to replicate on David’s affect each on us individually and on the broader motion for a freer and extra affluent society. 

William Ruger, Ph.D.
President

“It was unhappy to study of David’s sudden passing.  He was an ardent defender of a free society, faithfully devoted to selling his group and its reason behind particular person liberty.  David was a robust anti-interventionist, and when there have been so few opponents of our idealistic misadventures within the Center East within the 2000s, he stored religion along with his rules when so many others broke unhealthy. I’ve identified David for 20 years and the wonderful thing about him was that he appeared to have the identical power and vigor for liberty and anti-interventionism on the finish as after I first met him.”

Phillip W Magness, Ph.D.
Director of Analysis and Training

“I’ll at all times keep in mind David for the worth he positioned on friendship throughout the broader free-market custom. On multiple event, he reached out to me to easily supply a form phrase of encouragement and help. He would name to remind me that there have been nonetheless individuals who had my again, whilst I used to be taking the brunt of an assault from the New York Instances‘s 1619 Undertaking, from Anthony Fauci’s efforts to “take down” critics of lockdown insurance policies, or from the enforcers of academia’s varied pieties on a spread of points from wealth taxation to highschool option to the violation of financial liberty within the identify of a false social fairness. He would supply an ear in counsel and a hand in help to convey that I used to be not alone within the battle. He displayed a significant and honest dedication to mental respect for the rules of a free society, a willingness to defend them in opposition to excessive adversity, and in doing so offered an instance for others to emulate.”

Ryan M Yonk, Ph.D.
Senior College Fellow 

“My interactions with David began as a newly minted Assistant Professor who stepped in to talk at one of many pupil seminars his beloved Impartial Institute was sponsoring. I nonetheless keep in mind the cellphone name from David the place he wished to be sure that I understood each the significance of the message, and the way a lot he cared concerning the concepts. 

All through my whole profession David was a fixture of constant rules, and somebody you at all times anticipated would depart a voicemail with some new nice thought and a push to get you to do extra, interact extra absolutely, and to always remember that standing nonetheless within the battle for a freer world isn’t actually an possibility. 

I used to be lucky to collaborate with David and with the Impartial Institute on the publication of Nature Unbound, a e-book that David tirelessly promoted and made certain was a part of discussions about environmental coverage. That willingness to push good concepts ahead is what made David the unflinching supporter all of us keep in mind fondly. 

I’ll significantly miss David and we’re all worse off from his too quickly departure.”

IN MEMORIAM: DAVID J. THEROUX

David J. Theroux handed away on April twenty third, 2022, after a quick sickness. Like different mental giants earlier than him, his legacy lives on by means of his work and those that proceed to be impressed by it. He was a gentleman and a scholar. Theroux based the Impartial Institute the place he reached hundreds of thousands by means of scholarship, commentary, publishing, and media. 

Theroux held two bachelor’s levels, a grasp’s diploma from the College of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the College of Chicago. After finishing his schooling, he labored for the Cato Institute as a founding Vice President and Director of Educational Affairs. He additionally served as a founding President of the Pacific Analysis Institute for Public Coverage. In 1986, he subsequently based the Impartial Institute the place he served as President for 36 years. Along with his work with Impartial, he additionally based the C.S. Lewis Society of California.

A consummate instance of management, Theroux confirmed the world what it means to be an entrepreneur on the planet of concepts. He consistently recognized new alternatives and initiatives for the Institute. He was a fearless challenger of orthodoxy throughout the political spectrum, and his work appeared in USA At the moment, Los Angeles Instances, Wall Avenue Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Investor’s Enterprise Each day, Washington Instances, and extra. He reached much more people by means of his media appearances on ABC, MSNBC, Fox, CNN, C-SPAN, and NPR.

Theroux described the Impartial Institute as being “within the enterprise of elevating questions.” Below his management, the Institute decried army interventions, financial sanctions, tariffs, the warfare on medicine, authorities bailouts, the demise penalty, and extra. The Institute additionally printed prolifically below his management, printing over 140 books alongside the Institute’s quarterly journal, The Impartial Overview: A Journal of Political Financial system. The journal options in-depth scholarship on coverage points by main teachers and specialists. Many AIER students have been lucky to contribute articles and e-book opinions to the journal.