Independent Institute

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

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

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

Independent Institute Files Vital Amicus Brief in AB-5 Case

New Briefing—Precaution Can Kill: Chemical Benefits and Regulatory Risks

Independent Institute Earns 4-Star Honor from Charity Navigator

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Commentary

Split Roll Tax Measure Would Harm Vulnerable Californians

Lawrence J. McQuillan, Douglas E. Koehler • Aug 4
Commentary

Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators!

Richard K. Vedder • Aug 4
Commentary

Is There a Better Way to Subsidize Private Health Insurance?

John C. Goodman • Aug 4
The Beacon

What Bezos, Cook, Pinchai and Zuckerberg Should Have Told Congress about Antitrust Hysteria

William F. Shughart II • Aug 3
The Beacon

Lessons from Wilford Brimley’s Best Performance

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Aug 3
Commentary

Turkey in the Era of ‘Sultan Erdogan’

Alvaro Vargas Llosa • Aug 3
Catalyst

Media Groupthink Comes for Sweden

Luka Ladan • Aug 1
Commentary

Olivia de Havilland, Hollywood Patriot

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Jul 30
The Beacon

Red Flags Raised Over National Debt’s Rapid Rise

Craig Eyermann • Jul 30
Commentary

Economic Recovery Requires the Government to Stop What It’s Doing

Benjamin Powell • Jul 30

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New Independent Briefing: Better than Common Core: Florida’s New K-12 Standards Raise the Bar

Education reformers searching for a better approach to K-12 instruction should look to Florida. The Sunshine State’s new standards in English language arts and mathematics are the best in the nation.
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
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.
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.