In this fascinating Independent Conversation, world-renowned education scholar and best-selling author Dr. James Tooley is interviewed by Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker on Dr. Tooley's new Independent book, Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, and the issues of educational choice, opportunity, and quality, including the worldwide development of low-cost, private schools for the poor and their relevance to America.

Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? talks about the upcoming US Supreme Court case New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett, which will determine the right to carry (or bear) arms outside of one's home. Based on the text of the Second Amendment and traditions of the United States, there are a handful of states which deny the right to carry arms.

In this eighteenth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom; school choice and K-12 school shutdowns; rebellions against "progressive" wokeness and Big Government; critical race theory and cancel culture; climate change and climate alarmism; gun control and the Second Amendment at the U.S. Supreme Court; and much more.

Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan appears on The Andy Caldwell Show on KUHL in Santa Maria, CA. McQuillan is the co-author of the new California Golden Fleece Award “COVID in California: How Government Regulations Created Critical Healthcare Shortages.” He discusses the employment regulations and equipment and testing problems that delayed California's response to pandemic.

Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Founders’ Second Amendment and other books about the right to keep and bear arms, speaks about the US Supreme Court taking up a Second Amendment case. The case involves the right to carry a gun outside one's home.

Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Founders’ Second Amendment and other books about the right to keep and bear arms, speaks about the US Supreme Court taking up a Second Amendment case. The case involves the right to carry a gun outside one's home.

Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of The Founders' Second Amendment, Gun Control in the Third Reich, and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France appears on The Wilkow Majority on the Patriot Channel on SiriusXM. Halbrook discusses the history of the Second Amendment and the possibility of new challenges to the right to keep and bear arms. The court recently agreed to hear a challenge to restrictions on carrying firearms outside the home.

Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of “Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past” in the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review, discusses the history of Planned Parenthood and its founder, Margaret Sanger. Sanger was a proponent of getting rid of the "unfit" through the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of US citizens in the early 20th century. Sanger's eugenics policies and efforts to prevent full citizenship to the "unfit" in the United States became the model for Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws of 1935.