Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
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
5/21/2020	“University of California Will No Longer Use ACT/SAT Tests in Admissions” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on KCBS radio
5/21/2020	“Our Country Has Failed by Shuttering Schools” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Newsmax TV’s Liquid Lunch
5/21/2020	“Schools Should Re-Open” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WESR radio’s Politics on the Edge
5/20/2020	“Reality Check: Stomping Around Michigan Declaring Yourself a Militia Only Makes You Look Like an Idiot” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of That Every Man Be Armed cited in The Federalist
5/20/2020	“Open Schools Now” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the Lars Larson radio show
5/20/2020	“The Politics of Fear: For economist Robert Higgs, Covid-19 is just the latest emergency justifying expanded government power.” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in City Journal
5/19/2020	“COVID-19 Policies Place Liberty in Peril” Research Fellow Randall Holcombe, author of Liberty in Peril Op-Ed in The Hill
5/18/2020	“Colleges on Life Support Face Three Choices: Death, Merge or Survive” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/16/2020	“Tom Cotton Leads Way to Confrontation with China” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in The American Conservative
5/16/2020	“Was Obama Systematically Spying on Everyone Who Could Threaten His Legacy?” Sr. Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux cited on American Thinker
5/16/2020	“Two Narratives, One Constitution” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Townhall
5/15/2020	“Cuts at Ohio University Need to Protect Academic Mission says Economist Vedder” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise appears on WOUB radio
5/15/2020	“Suspend CA AB-5 Now to Hire Gig Workers During Pandemic” Independent’s Open Letter to Suspend AB5 cited on Fallbrook Bonsall Village News
5/15/2020	“Challenging Anthony Fauci” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed on American Thinker
5/15/2020	“Parents Who Home-School Are a Danger to Their Kids? That’s What These Academics Think” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure Op-Ed in the Kansas City Star and other Tribune News Service syndicated newspapers
5/14/2020	Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Independent Institute’s Open Letter to Suspend California’s AB5 mentioned on National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast
5/14/2020	Independent Institute Founder and President David Theroux appears on National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast to discuss Independent’s YouTube series Love Gov
5/13/2020	“The Question Raisers” Independent Institute Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer David Theroux, Sr. Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux, Sr. Fellow William Shughart II, Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, Love Gov, California Golden Fleece Awards, and Independent’s Open Letter to Gov. Newsom featured in The East Bay Express
5/13/2020	“A Few Lawmakers Try to Restore Work for Californians” by Lee Ohanian cites the Independent Institute’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Gavin Newsom to Suspend AB5 in Hoover Institution’s California on Your Mind
5/11/2020	“California’s Common Core Apologia” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Ze’ev Wurman Op-Ed in Real Clear Education
5/11/2020	“After 40 Bad Years, the Department of Education Redeems Itself a Bit” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
5/11/2020	“Governance of Fear” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited in Business World
5/11/2020	Notice and recommendation of the “Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5” in the weekly e-newsletter of the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce
5/9/2020	“Public school closures may be a big mistake” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal