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California Golden Fleece^® Award Goes to CA Housing Crisis Creators

New Book—In All Fairness Challenges Flawed, Coercive, Egalitarian Ideas

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Governor Northam’s War on Gun Owners in Virginia

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland Appears on Ron Paul’s Liberty Report

2019: A Year of More Useless Deployments to the Middle East

To Combat Poverty, Remove Barriers to Economic Liberty

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The Left’s Opposition to Mining Threatens Its Green Dream

William F. Shughart II • Jan 22
The Beacon

Fox News Documentary Puts Brutality of the Militarized Central State on Full Display

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Jan 21
The Beacon

California’s Hidden Checkbook

Craig Eyermann • Jan 21
The Beacon

Are More Vaping Bans Coming Soon? Let’s Hope Not!

Raymond J. March • Jan 21
Commentary

Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor, Comes to Campus

Richard K. Vedder • Jan 21
Commentary

After Trump, Whom Will They Impeach Next?

William J. Watkins Jr. • Jan 20
The Beacon

How to Rescue the U.S. Postal Service

Craig Eyermann • Jan 20
The Beacon

Robert Klein, Davy Crockett, and the Quest for Another $5.5 Billion for Stem Cells

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Jan 20
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‘Cancel Culture’ Comes to Science

Peter W. Wood • Jan 20
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‘The Essential Milton Friedman’ Shows A Great Mind at Work”

Art Carden • Jan 17

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UPCOMING EVENT: Fixing Science: Practical Solutions for the Irreproducibility Crisis

Oakland, CA | February 7-8

Something has gone terribly wrong in today’s scientific community. Many headline scientific findings in recent years have turned out to be false and impossible to reproduce.
Winter 2020 California Golden Fleece^® Award

For preventing housing development, which would alleviate sky-high housing prices and growing homelessness, California politicians, government planners and regulators, and NIMBY activists have been named recipients of the ninth California Golden Fleece^® Award.
NEW BOOK: In All Fairness: Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity

Concern about inequality has led to proposals to remake American society according to ill-conceived and coercive “egalitarian” values that are fundamentally unfair. This unique book reveals the modern romance with equality as a destructive flirtation.
NEW BOOK: Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History

By Randall G. Holcombe

Starting with its founding in 1776, Americans viewed the role of government as the protector of their individual rights. Over time, the the idea that the role of government is to carry out majority rule has displaced the ethics of liberty.
NEW WEBSITE: Catalyst

Catalyst is our new website devoted to issues that millennials care about the most: jobs, housing costs, education, student debt, healthcare, and personal freedoms. 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.