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Posted: Thu. October 8, 2020, 1:41pm PT

Dr. Walker interviews Dr. Evers regarding the deep insights and towering achievements of that civilization—valuable in their own right—and how such insights once enabled Americans, who were immersed in the classics, to reach beyond partisan differences by drawing on shared knowledge and lessons from the past.

Posted: Sun. October 4, 2020, 10:15am PT

In this fifth episode of Independent Outlook, Independent Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., joins with Williamson Evers and Graham Walker to examine President Trump’s nomination of U.S. Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Presidential Debates, the recent Breonna Taylor grand jury decision and riots, and more!

Posted: Tue. September 29, 2020, 10:53pm PT

In this fourth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine "Millenarian Mobs" and "utopian" street violence, leftist assassinations of police officers, government responsibility for the California wildfires, woke culture and football, Judeo-Christianty and civic virtue, Milton Friedman and corporate responsibility, and more!

Posted: Thu. September 24, 2020, 8:59am PT

In this third episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine ethnic studies, identify politics and tribalism, critical race theory, victimization, envy, civil rights, political corruption, individual liberty, personal responsibility, K-12 schools and school choice, racism and anti-Semitism, police unions and reform, the welfare state and poverty, looting, property rights, due process, the rule of law, and more!

Posted: Mon. September 21, 2020, 4:44pm PT

Roads, highways, offices, and schools were being rebuilt in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Williamson Evers was recruited by the George W. Bush White House to travel to Iraq in 2003 and help reopen the schools there. He was interviewed in 2004 by NPR's Day to Day program. Evers wrote an Op-Ed in 2020 comparing the Iraq situation with the COVID-19 epidemic and the reopening of American schools.

Posted: Sat. September 19, 2020, 11:28am PT

Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of the article "Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past" in the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review is interviewed on The Federalist Radio Hour. Cargill discusses the history of the Progressivism and their policies of eugenics in the early 20th century. The widespread acceptance of eugenics in the United States, especially by progressives, is a troubling part of U.S. history unknown to many Americans, and the role model America provided for Nazi race law is even more troubling.

Posted: Wed. September 16, 2020, 12:33pm PT

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Posted: Tue. September 1, 2020, 12:32pm PT

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Freedomworks Radio and discusses the proposed ethnic studies curriculum for California high school students. Evers wrote in a recent Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal that the curriculum is mostly about identity politics and ethnic victimization and is not balanced with positive examples of cultures' strengths and achievements. Evers also pointed to the curriculum's neglect of findings in economics, sociology, and political science.