This Lighthouse Briefing video features Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker and Independent Research Fellow Dr. Phillip W. Magness discussing Dr. Magness's article, “Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data,” including the politicization of science, the folly of lockdowns and mask mandates, and the need for "Focus Protection" to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve "herd immunity."

There is no climate emergency, says Research Fellow Anthony Lupo, who is co-author of the book Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate. Why are forecasts incorrect? IPCC reports are often interpreted as dire by climate alarmists, he says, while most of the reports are actually quite sanguine. Even weather forecasts models can be inaccurate over 5 days, and longer term climate models can vary greatly. As for carbon emissions, the market is doing a great job at reducing emissions, Lupo says.

Research Fellow Anthony Lupo, co-author of Hot Talk, Cold Science appears the Alan Nathan Radio Show to discuss adaptation vs mitigation to address climate change. The climate is warming a bit, says Lupo but it's not an emergency. Lupo says the Paris Agreement is flawed in its structure. The drive for more efficient technologies in the market is working.

Research Fellow Anthony Lupo, co-author of Hot Talk, Cold Science appears the Tron Simpson radio show on KVOR in Colorado. Lupo talks about the politics pushing the agenda of CO2 causing climate change. There is no "correct climate" and humans cannot control it, says Lupo.

In this fourteenth episode of Independent Outlook, Independent Research Fellow Jonathan J. Bean joins with Williamson Evers and Graham Walker to examine the people and ideas of the anti-racist, classical-liberal tradition of individual liberty and equality, demonstrating how it has inspired individuals to boldly advance race relations in the United States. People discussed include Thomas Jefferson, James Forten, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele . . .Rooted in the Judeo-Christian natural-law tradition, classical liberals have advocated freedom from governmental interference, abolition of prejudicial law, equality under a uniform rule of law guaranteed by the Constitution, and market-based entrepreneurial opportunity.

Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on the Dan Proft show on WIND radio in Chicago. Goodman discusses the identity crisis in the conservative movement. There is a division in conservative politics between people who look to the past to preserve institution and a younger generation who wants to liberate people and change and reform institutions toward freedom and liberty, says Goodman.
The right has lost its bearings and is floundering, he says, and needs the energy of the Reagan/Thatcher years with ideas centering around prosperity for all, free enterprise, and school choice.

Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on WKRF radio in Louisiana to talk about Obamacare and how it could be amended to work for more families. Goodman says the Affordable Care Act is a race to the bottom and although it does insure more people, it is similar to Medicaid, but with high premiums.

In this thirteenth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine: What is the second Trump Impeachment trial distracting us from? This being Black History Month, how has Big Government been used to harm African Americans? How are Biden's Executive Orders rewarding interest groups that have supported him? What is the difference between classical liberalism and progressivism? Why are teachers unions fighting against school re-openings? And much more.