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Best Books on the Folly of Socialism: What Everyone Should Know About the Practical and Moral Failures of the Socialist Project

Williamson M. Evers | Feb. 18, 2020

Commentary

Is Latin America Beyond Hope?

Is Latin America Beyond Hope? Despite a glimmer of hope in Chile, its prospects are dire.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Sep. 21, 2022

Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study in Government Failure

John C. Goodman | Sep. 14, 2022

Hollywood Blacklist Backstory

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sep. 14, 2022

Socialism Was Never Great

Socialism Was Never Great: Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sep. 9, 2022

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Book Reviews

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

By Donald T. Critchlow
Reviewed By Yuri N. Maltsev

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

By Donald T. Critchlow
Reviewed By Yuri N. Maltsev

Where Have All the Capitalists Gone? Essays in Moral Political Economy

By Richard M. Salsman
Reviewed By Edward W. Younkins

Where Have All the Capitalists Gone? Essays in Moral Political Economy

By Richard M. Salsman
Reviewed By Edward W. Younkins

Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History

By Andrei Znamenski
Reviewed By Paul Dragos Aligica

Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History

By Andrei Znamenski
Reviewed By Paul Dragos Aligica

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Research

The Ideological Commissar and the Institutionalization of Indoctrination: Insights ...

The Ideological Commissar and the Institutionalization of Indoctrination: Insights from the Communist Experience

By Paul Dragos Aligica
The Independent Review | July 1, 2022

Fascism: Left, Right, or Neither?

By Allen Gindler
The Independent Review | July 1, 2022

What Is the Great Reset?

By Michael D. Rectenwald
Research Article | Feb. 28, 2022

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Independent Institute Books

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Videos

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Young Americans and the Delusional Appeal of Socialism

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An Evening with Jordan B. Peterson

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Love Gov Video Series: Presentation at Draper University

Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate

C.S. Lewis on Natural Law and Liberty

Ivan Pongracic on Why Socialism Failed

Anthony Gregory on Liberals vs. Libertarians

A Gala for Liberty: The Independent Institute’s ...

Friedrich Hayek and the Future of Liberty

Why Freedom? | Tibor R. Machan, Jan Narveson, David ...

National Dinner to Honor Robert A. Conquest

Williamson Evers: How to Convince a Socialist to Become ...

Audio

“Climate Socialism” Research Fellow David Legates, co-author of Hot Talk, Cold Science appears on the Matt Buff show on AM 950 and 94.9 FM The Answer Orlando, FL.
Apr. 26, 2022

“Default or Defeat for Russia’s Putin” Sr. Fellow Judy Shelton is interviewed on The John Batchelor radio show
Apr. 1, 2022

“California Governor Vetoes Ethnic Studies” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers on The Education Exchange podcast
Oct. 13, 2020

“Suspend CA AB5” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the Andy Caldwell radio show
Apr. 17, 2020

“Books for Skepticism about Socialism” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WRVA radio
Mar. 6, 2020

“Socialism’s Folly” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the Lars Larson radio show
Mar. 5, 2020

“Books on Socialism’s Folly” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on FreedomWorks radio
Mar. 4, 2020

“Best Books on the Folly of Socialism” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on KFMB radio
Mar. 2, 2020

Brexit - An Economist's Reaction. Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy, appears on the Marc Cox show on FM News Talk 97.1 in St. Louis
June 24, 2016

Independent Institute President David J. Theroux Discusses C.S. Lewis on Ave Maria Radio
Aug. 1, 2015

Clifford Thies on the American Economic Association and Richard T. Ely
Nov. 28, 2011