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New Report: 490 B.C. Project—Is It Time for a Humanities War?

California’s Monumental IT Failures Earn latest California Golden Fleece® Award

Legal Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A Life Lived for the Living Constitution.

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed—‘Critical’ Ethnic Studies Returns to California

The Crisis in Civil Rights—Best Books on Race, Police, and the Welfare State

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (New Edition)

Police Unions and Officer Privileges

Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty

How Governments Manipulate Crises to Create Ever Greater Power

Catalyst: Young Voices for Liberty

Absent in Textbooks: America’s Shameful Era of Eugenics and “Scientific Racism”

America’s War Zone: Guilt and Stupidity Fuel Extreme Grievances and Violence

Closing Schools Was a Grievous Error

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Is a Desalination Plant “Systemic Racism”?

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The Original Fascist

Angelo M. Codevilla • Sep 25
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Re-fund, Don’t Defund, the Police

Benjamin Powell • Sep 25
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Americans’ Right to Worship Is Being Denied by Governments. I Won’t Be Silent Anymore.

Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, JCD • Sep 25
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Breonna Taylor Riots and More Irresponsible Rhetoric

William J. Watkins, Jr. • Sep 24
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The Aristocracy of Pull

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To Go to School in L.A.

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Sep 24
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The Legal Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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New Report: 490 B.C. Project

Is It Time for a Humanities War?

Greece and Rome wrestled more than two thousand years ago with what citizenship meant, what freedom meant, what justice meant—just as we wrestle with them today. Today's high school students are woefully unaware of the importance of their unique history.
New Report: Bugs in the System

California’s Monumental IT Failures Earn Latest California Golden Fleece^® Award

Despite being home to some of the greatest minds in technology, California continues failing to modernize its IT systems, much less do so under budget. State agencies are swindling taxpayers and breaking the public trust.
The Crisis in Civil Rights

Best Books and Articles on Race, Police, and the Welfare State

Independent Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers has created one of the most exhaustive annotated reading lists ever assembled regarding the issues of civil rights, policing, race, and the welfare state.
Open Letter from 153 Scholars to CA Governor Newsom: “Suspend AB-5 Now to Help Gig Workers”

An influential group of 153 economists and political scientists call for the immediate suspension of California’s AB-5, a law that was passed in 2019 to restrict the use of independent contractors.
Related: Brief of Amicus Curiae Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Best Books on the Folly of Socialism

What everyone should know about the practical and moral failures of the socialist project

Compiled by Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers, this annotated list of recommended readings highlights some of the most insightful critiques of socialism ever written.
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.
LOVE GOV: Watch Seasons 1 and 2

Independent’s satirical 2-season 10-part video series personifies the folly, cost, and intrusiveness of government, demonstrating the federal government’s ever-expanding reach into our lives.