Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
6/12/2020	“Can We Talk about Something Else Now?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited on American Institute for Economic Research
6/11/2020	“One Cheer for Trump’s Troop Withdrawal from Germany” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency
6/11/2020	“AB5 and the California Economy” Executive Director Graham Walker appears on the Larry O’Connor radio show
6/9/2020	“Time to Listen to the Coronavirus Dissidents” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa appears on American Medicine Today
6/8/2020	“Riots in America: Today vs the 1960s” Research Fellow Jonathan Bean appears on the Lars Larson show
6/8/2020	“Riots after Floyd Death Similar to 1960s Riots—Liberal Response Repeats Mistakes of Past” Research Fellow Jonathan Bean, editor of Race and Liberty in America Op-Ed on FoxNews.com
6/8/2020	“Is a Law School Meltdown Coming?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/8/2020	“Will California’s Destructive Restrictions on Freelance Workers Go National?” by K. Lloyd Billingsley in The Beacon
6/6/2020	“Liberal Mayors, Racial Politics, and Fake News” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Townhall
6/6/2020	“US Should Invite Hong Kongers to America” Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell, editor of The Economics of Immigration Op-Ed in The Hill
6/6/2020	“National Debt Nightmare” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II appears on the Freedom Adventure podcast
6/4/2020	“War Is Not Healthy for the Economy and Other Living Things” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited on AntiWar.com
6/2/2020	“Restoring Racial Preferences Will Harm Many Who Are Supposed to Be Helped” Lee E. Ohanian Op-Ed in Hoover Institution’s California on Your Mind
6/1/2020	“Why Pay $200,000 for a Piece of Paper?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/1/2020	“Will governments use pandemic emergency orders to expand their powers indefinitely?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Washington Post
5/29/2020	“Critics of California’s AB5 Law Argue Gig Work Could Help Economy Recover” Independent Institute Executive Director Graham Walker interviewed on KTVU-TV (Oakland, CA) and KCBA (Monterey) and KRXI (Reno)
5/29/2020	“Biden Backs Democrat Declaration against Independence” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in Front Page Mag mentioning Independent’s Open Letter to Suspend AB5
5/28/2020	“To Bounce Back from the Coronavirus, America Must Continue to Deregulate” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The National Interest
5/27/2020	News Release “Wiley Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief in California Assembly Bill Case Supports First Amendment Rights and Economic Liberties of Independent Contractors” at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra case seeking to rescind AB-5
5/27/2020	“Pandemic and Leviathan” Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples appears on American Medicine Today
5/27/2020	“Schools Should Be Open” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the David Webb radio show
5/27/2020	News Release “Independent Institute Files Vital Amicus Brief in AB-5 Case” at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra case seeking to rescind AB-5
5/26/2020	“The Five Deadly Sins of Private Health Insurance” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
5/26/2020	“Is the University of California Committing Suicide? Equity vs. Excellence” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/26/2020	“An Old Man Like Me Should Be Made More Vulnerable to Death by COVID-19” Policy Fellow Ronald Trowbridge Op-Ed in The Hill
5/26/2020	“Should Netflix’s ‘Waco’ Renew a Discussion about Militarizing Law Enforcement?” Research Fellow Sam Staley appears on the American Viewpoints podcast
5/25/2020	“The Crisis Hypothesis Explains Today’s Big Government” Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples appears on the Freedom Adventure podcast to discuss Crisis and Leviathan by Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs
5/24/2020	“USA PATRIOT Act: Leviathan in Search of a Crisis” Sr. Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux Op-Ed on AntiWar.com
5/22/2020	“Killing Us Softly” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom appears on National Review’s Radio Free California podcast
5/22/2020	“Why Schools Should Open Now” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WBAL radio
5/21/2020	“Why are school boards OK’ing California’s flawed ethnic studies model?” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted in The Jewish News of Northern California
5/21/2020	“What the Regime Uncertainty of the Pandemic Means for Entrepreneurs” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited in Entrepreneur magazine