Independent Institute

No Safe Spaces Bay Area Film Screening and Panel, Nov. 7 Event

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

WATCH: Jordan B. Peterson on The Meaning and Reality of Individual Sovereignty

Catalyst: New Website Offers Accessible Ideas to Young Careerists

CA Power Shut-offs—Lawrence McQuillan interviewed on Lars Larson radio show

Ivan Eland Op-Ed: How Did We Come to Have a Rogue Presidency?

California State University System’s Math Problem

Independent Institute Earns 4-Star Honor from Charity Navigator

In the News

The Beacon

W. Dieter Tede (1933-2019)

David J. Theroux • Oct 19
Commentary

Why Do We Have Business or Education Schools in Universities?

Richard K. Vedder • Oct 17
The Beacon

Is Right-to-Try Legislation a Bust? Time for a Second Opinion.

Raymond J. March • Oct 17
Commentary

The Right Move Done the Wrong Way

Ivan Eland • Oct 16
Catalyst

Peseros: A Look Inside Mexico City’s Private Bus Network

Scott Beyer • Oct 16
Commentary

Will the Courts Rein in Collegiate Race/Gender Pandering?

Richard K. Vedder • Oct 15
The Beacon

A Long Overdue Remedy for NCAA Madness

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Oct 15
Catalyst

New York City: The Front Line of Minimum Wage Misery

Luka Ladan • Oct 15
Commentary

Trump Should Heed History and End His Trade Wars

Lawrence J. McQuillan, Lamar K. Hendrikse • Oct 14
The Beacon

Fed Confirms That Federal Borrowing a Cause of Liquidity Crisis

Craig Eyermann • Oct 14
Catalyst

The Policy Circle Bringing Women Into the National Conversation

Alexandra Hudson • Oct 14

Announcements

UPCOMING EVENT: No Safe Spaces: Free Speech Under Attack

Bay Area Film Screening and Panel | Thursday, November 7, 2019

College campuses have become the most intolerant places for diverse and even conventional viewpoints. The new film No Safe Spaces starring Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager seeks to understand what is happening in America and what free speech should look like.
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.
Education Policy Expert Williamson Evers Joins the Independent Institute

With a record of policy impact, and after over two decades as a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, he leads Independent’s team of education experts.
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: 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.