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The Beacon

Trump’s Trade War Makes Us All Losers

Alvaro Vargas Llosa • Aug 19
Commentary

We Already Know What the Trump Health Plan Is

John C. Goodman • Aug 19
The Beacon

How Uncle Sam’s Borrowing Binge Might Spark a New Financial Crisis

Craig Eyermann • Aug 19
Catalyst

Let Veterans Work

Conor Norris • Aug 19
The Beacon

How Government Prolonged the Lobotomy

Raymond J. March • Aug 16
Commentary

Can Both Red and Blue Sides Have a Civil Debate?

Ronald L. Trowbridge • Aug 15
The Beacon

All Gain for Criminals, All Pain for Motorists: California’s Prop 47 Prompts Catalytic Converter Thefts

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Aug 15
The Beacon

Three Assumptions the Left Makes About Economic Inequality

Randall G. Holcombe • Aug 15
The Beacon

Universal Won’t Release The Hunt, but the “Satirical” Movie’s Backstory Is Eerily Familiar

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Aug 14
The Beacon

U.S. Government Sets New Records for Spending and Revenues

Craig Eyermann • Aug 14
Catalyst

If the Gig Economy Has Unintended Consequences, So Does Shutting It Down

Luka Ladan • Aug 14

Announcements

Summer 2019 California Golden Fleece® Award

For pursuing faulty incentives that impeded fire prevention and the widespread adoption of scientific techniques to prevent, detect, and quickly suppress wildfires, several government agencies have been named recipients of the eighth California Golden Fleece® Award.
NEW BOOK: Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America

By Richard K. Vedder

Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder offers powerful prescriptions to cure the underlying problems in higher education including high student debt, triviality masquerading as important research, high dropout rates, and more.
NEW BOOK: War and the Rogue Presidency

By Ivan Eland

Congress's abdication of power, especially during wartime, has enabled the Office of the President to grow beyond its constitutional limits, explains Senior Fellow Ivan Eland in his new book War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure.
2018 Independent Institute Annual Report

Independent is advancing peace, prosperity and liberty with our principled, solutions-oriented, work—which we have shared via hundreds of groundbreaking books, scholarly articles, social media campaigns, and much more.
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: Seasons 1 and 2 Now Available

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.
UPCOMING EVENT: Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation & the Supreme Court

August 22, 2019 • Oakland, CA

Nasty politics and unverified accusations became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction during the Kavanaugh confirmation. At this special event, Mollie Hemingway reveals the true story of what really happened.

Recent Videos

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? Featuring Physicists Willie Soon and Elliott Bloom

Is global warming real? Have any such predictions been established scientifically? Would massive “carbon” taxes and other controls put America and the world—especially the poor—at great risk?

An Evening with Jordan B. Peterson

“The Meaning and Reality of Individual Sovereignty.” Dr. Peterson examines the roots of individualism and how each of us can overcome life’s biggest obstacles, improve ourselves and society, and secure the fabric and institutions of society.