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Upcoming and Recent Events

The Independent Institute hosts numerous events to encourage discussion and understanding of key issues in current affairs, public policy and political economy. Most are held either at the Institute’s conference center in Oakland, California, or at our offices in Washington D.C. At each event, distinguished and well-known scholars, policy experts and others speak at length about important issues and answer questions from the audience.


Upcoming Event

Civil Liberties and Security in an Age of Terrorism
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Oakland, CA

Could the eye-opening reports on the government’s accessing all phone and electronic communications along with the reaction to the Boston Bombing be setting into motion a chain of events of ominous significance? What should Americans be most concerned about? You are cordially invited to join with us for a special evening, in association with our Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminars, as we discuss these timely issues.


Recent Event

Replacing Obamacare and Curing the Healthcare Crisis
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Oakland, CA

Most Americans want to repeal and replace Obamacare ("Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"). However, which reforms would contribute the most to making high-quality healthcare affordable and accessible? In this upcoming event and based on his new book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, Dr. John C. Goodman will take the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to task, reject Obamacare, and offer a no-nonsense approach to healthcare reform.


Recent Event

Why Government Fails—But Free Individuals Succeed
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Oakland, CA

Emmy Award and Peabody Award–winning TV journalist John Stossel has long argued that the government is not a neutral arbiter of truth. A self-described skeptic, he has dismantled society’s sacred cows with unerring common sense. Now he debunks the most sacred of them all: the belief that government can solve our problems.


Recent Event

Restoring First Principles: The Economy, Bailouts, and the Right to Bear Arms
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Washington, D.C.

With perpetual wars, bailouts, fiscal insolvency, and the continuing degradation of civil liberties, the country has no hope for righting itself without a return to “First Principles.” As Vern McKinley, Stephen Halbrook, and Don Boudreaux will show, these principles are fiscal responsibility, limited government, strong protection of civil liberties and the right to bear arms, and a commitment to promoting free, peaceful, and prosperous societies. Join us at this great event that will be followed promptly by a book signing with the authors.




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