Latest Articles
-
Commentary
Three Banks Just FailedFear of Contagion Looms Amid Silicon Valley Bank Troubles
• Mar 21
Announcements
-
The Independent Review: Winter 2022/23 Issue Now Available
What are the key challenges and opportunities facing higher education now and in the future? How will higher education change? How should it change? Also in this issue: Uncertainty under Socialism; Ukrainian development from the 19th century to modern times; and more!
-
Love Gov 3: The Metaverse of MadnessWATCH NOW!
Season 3 of the Award-Winning Web Series
With Scott Gov Govinsky at the helm of the post-pandemic education system, its a new (anything-but) normal. This is the third season of Love Gov, the comedy web series that explores how government impacts our lives.
-
New Book: In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
Imperialism and militarism build empires, not liberalism. So says Christopher Coyne, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of economics at George Mason University, in this eye-opening, must-read book on Americas recent foreign policy failures.
-
Recommended Readings on the History of Russia and Ukraine
The Russia/Ukraine war is between countries that have different histories and political cultures from our own. The conflict brings up just-war theory, the difficult issue of nationalities, contrasting political cultures, and a myriad of other issues. Here is the much-needed guide through all the complexity.
-
Critical Math Doesnt Add Up
Politics Plus Mathematics Equals Undermining Foundations of Success
Most people think that mathematics is a non-ideological discipline. They think of it as an objective discipline that is socially and politically neutral and independent of the society in which it is studied. But the promoters of critical math in the United States do not think sothey see math as an ideological battlefield.
-
Policy Report Beyond Homeless: Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Transformative Solutions.
The Bay Areas housing and homelessness crises will not be resolved until policymakers and service providers stop relying on conventional approaches which do not work.
Read the Report News Release BeyondHomeless.org -
CATALYST: Young Voices for Liberty
Catalyst is our website dedicated to issues that millennials care about the most: jobs, housing costs, education, student debt, healthcare, and more. Learn, engage, and connect.
Featured Issues
Independent Bookstore
VISIT the bookstoreThe Independent Review A Journal of Political Economy
Latest Issue: Winter 2022/23
-
The Future of Higher Education
by Robert M. Whaples
-
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times...
by Richard K. Vedder
-
Lets Not Lose Our Advantage in Higher Education
by Amanda L. Griffith
-
What Higher Education May Look Like in the Future
by George C. Leef, Jenna A. Robinson
-
The Hyperpoliticization of Higher Ed: Trends in Faculty Political Ideology, 1969Present
by Phillip W. Magness, David Waugh
-
What Universities Owe to the Liberal Project
by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Bradley Jackson
-
Citizenship Education and Speech in the College Classroom: Whats the Real Problem?
by Harry Brighouse
-
We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
by Scott A. Beaulier
-
The Future of Higher Education: Prerequisites for Success
by E. Gordon Gee, Joshua C. Hall
-
In Defense of Real Education
by Russell D. Roberts
-
Knightian Uncertainty in Capitalism and Socialism
by Juan Ramón Rallo, Philipp Bagus, Miguel Ángel Alonso Neira
-
The Development of Liberalism in Ukraine
by Leonid A. Krasnozhon, Yuliya Yehorova
-
Operation Keelhaul: Forced Repatriation after World War II
by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
-
23 Book Reviews
-
National Founders and Founding Choices
by Robert M. Whaples
Latest Tweets Follow @IndependentInstitute
Tweets by @IndependentInstThe Lighthouse®
Weekly email newsletter
Distributed weekly, The Lighthouse® provides an overview of the latest Independent Institute articles, publications, events, and media programs.