Isaac Willour is the director of corporate engagement at Bowyer
Research, representing institutional investors before America’s biggest companies. He writes frequently on issues pertaining to business, faith, and culture, and can be found on X @IsaacWillour.
Posts by Isaac Willour
April 07, 2026
We have a saying in my field:
Don’t take business advice from people who think the business shouldn’t exist. Obvious? Tautological, even? Don’t be so sure. As someone in the world of corporate engagement, talking to the world’s largest companies on behalf of investors, you wouldn’t believe how often I find myself confronting corporate policies that were made to placate activists who really don’t want the company to exist.
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July 15, 2025
I recently attended a seminar on AI in which the speaker presented a recent exchange with ChatGPT, ending in the chatbot giving a very convincing imitation of a human compliment. “That should feel weird,” the speaker told the audience, and judging by the largely over-30 crowd, he made his point.
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April 10, 2025
Less than a month after George Floyd’s death, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on
The Joe Rogan Experience to explain the sentiment behind America’s new reckoning on race. “There’s a cybernetic principle: the purpose of a system is what it does,” he asserted.
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February 19, 2025
“It’s a five-alarm fire.” So begins
Identity Crisis, the latest release from the
Daily Wire and Turning Point USA, a film documenting the human costs of the rise in “gender-affirming care.”
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August 02, 2024
My generation’s worst habits are finally being put under the magnifying glass. Social media addiction is getting national attention, from the surgeon general of the United States advising a warning label, to some of the biggest school districts in the country straight-up banning children from using cellphones during the school day.
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February 09, 2024
America is facing the political rerun from hell: a seemingly inevitable rematch between two of the most divisive presidential candidates in recent memory. We’re once again headed for the partisan trenches in this most beloved of quadrennial fiascos: the battle to see which
very senior citizen will have access to nuclear codes (and the presidential X account) for the next four years.
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January 03, 2024
One of the most telling quotes I’ve heard regarding the conservative movement on racial issues comes from political commentator Candace Owens’ Twitter bio: “Black people don’t have to be Democrats—still.” It epitomizes the modern conservative disconnect: we are very, very good at criticizing existing political visions and are conversely very, very bad at creating alternate ones that appeal to people not on our side.
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December 18, 2023
Jimmy Lai is no ordinary political protester. The 76-year-old Hong Kong entrepreneur and newspaper publisher has sat in solitary confinement in 35-pound handcuffs for more than 1,000 days as he prepares for the trial of his life.
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November 02, 2023
This three-part series on race and the right began with a look at some truly telling statistics about how badly American conservatives are doing at taking on racial issues. Politically, 85% of Republican voters are white—the most racially homogeneous the party’s been since 2016 and the rise of Donald Trump.
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October 12, 2023
Once considered the highest rising feature of America’s business spaces, the cliffs of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are slowly eroding under the reliable and unrelenting tide of American apathy.
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