Independent Institute

New Book by Richard Vedder—Restoring the Promise of Higher Education

New Book: War and the Rogue Presidency by Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland

Catalyst: New Website Offers Accessible Ideas to Young Careerists

California’s High-Speed Rail is the Very Definition of a Boondoggle

Taxpayers Shouldn’t Get Stuck with a $1.5 Trillion Loan Default Tab

Child Safety Accounts Could Offer Lifeline to Thousands of Students

Democrats Are Doing It This Time; Republicans Have Done It in the Past

The Other Road to Socialism

Independent Institute Earns 4-Star Honor from Charity Navigator

In the News

Commentary

The Growth in Tuition Insurance

Richard K. Vedder • Jun 19
The Beacon

California Farmers Waiting on a Train That Will Never Come

Craig Eyermann • Jun 19
The Beacon

Trump’s Mexican Poodle

Alvaro Vargas Llosa • Jun 18
The Beacon

California Coastal Commission Fines Ritz-Carlton $1.6 Million for Sins of Omission

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Jun 18
Commentary

New Study Admits Even Modest Carbon Tax Would Hurt the Next Two Generations

Robert P. Murphy • Jun 18
Commentary

A Parade of Imperial Presidencies

Ivan Eland • Jun 18
The Beacon

Even in Reverse, California’s Bullet Train Rips Off Landowners and Taxpayers

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Jun 18
Commentary

In Defense of Blowouts: People Respond to Incentives, Even on the Soccer Field

Art Carden • Jun 17
Commentary

The Most Important Health Reform of All

John C. Goodman • Jun 17
Commentary

California’s High-Speed Rail Is the Very Definition of a Boondoggle

Adam B. Summers • Jun 17

Announcements

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.
California Golden Fleece® Awards

The California DMV—a poster child for bureaucratic incompetence—has earned the latest California Golden Fleece^® Award for its culture of negligence and shocking lack of oversight and accountability.
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.