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Commentary

The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: ...

The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed

Steve H. Hanke, Caleb Hofman | Sep. 13, 2022

How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful

How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful: We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer.

Victor Davis Hanson | Sep. 9, 2022

Sanctions Are Hurting the West More Than Russia

Alvaro Vargas Llosa | July 25, 2022

Our New Antoinettes

Our New Antoinettes : These humanitarian rich feel just terrible about the sins of America, but not terrible enough to sacrifice any element of their privileged lifestyles—the just deserts they feel for being so righteous.

Victor Davis Hanson | July 11, 2022

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Book Reviews

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically ...

Joseph Henrich
Reviewed By David Gordon, Ying Tang

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Joseph Henrich
Reviewed By David Gordon, Ying Tang

Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation ...

Mary Grabar
Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples

Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America

Mary Grabar
Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples

The Economics of Poverty Traps

Reviewed By Matthew E. Brown

The Economics of Poverty Traps

Reviewed By Matthew E. Brown

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Research

Is Support for Capitalism Declining around the World? A Free-Market Mentality Index, ...

Is Support for Capitalism Declining around the World? A Free-Market Mentality Index, 1990–2012

By Carlos Newland
The Independent Review | Apr. 1, 2018

The Case for Armed Intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

By Fernando R. Tesón
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2016

The Trend of War in the World: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Dispute

By James L. Payne
The Independent Review | Oct. 1, 2012

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Independent Institute Books

Videos

How Socialism Destroyed Africa | George B. N. Ayittey

How Do You Create Good Profit through Education? | ...

Ivan Eland on Turkey's border controls

The Extraordinary Grassroots Revolution of Low-cost ...

Unintended Consequences of Military Air Strikes

The Fight Against ISIS in Iraq

Crisis in Yemen

Ivan Eland on RT Television: Coalition of the Killing

Ivan Eland: Risk of Further Terror Attacks

Ivan Eland on ISIS in Iraq

Ivan Eland Discusses the Progress of Middle East Peace ...

Ivan Eland on the Syrian Crisis and White House Leadership

Ivan Eland Joins Discussion on Syrian Chemical Weapons ...

Ivan Eland on the Crisis in Syria

Ivan Eland on Rowhani’s Election in Iran

Ivan Eland discusses the Conflict in Syria on CCTV

Ivan Eland on Arming Syrian Rebels

Ivan Eland on Syrian Civil War on CCTV

Ivan Eland on RT’s CrossTalk Discusses Egypt’s ...

Ivan Eland on Palestine Getting UNESCO Membership‬

Ivan Eland on the Libyan Rebellion

Ivan Eland on Afghanistan’s Presidental Election

Lessons from the Poor: The Power of Entrepreneurship

The New Path for Africa: Establishing Free-Market Societies

Audio

Senior Fellow James Tooley, author of Really Good Schools appears on the John Batchelor Radio Show
May 21, 2021

Ivan Eland on the Iranian Nuclear Agreement
Apr. 6, 2015

Partitioning Iraq for Peace
Mar. 31, 2015

Why Should We Care If Iran has a Nuclear Bomb?
Mar. 30, 2015

The Political Economy of Drones
Feb. 26, 2015

Ivan Eland Discusses U.S. Intervention in Iraq on the Financial Survival Network
Aug. 20, 2014

Ivan Eland Discusses Syria on ARNN
Sep. 3, 2013

Ivan Eland on Bahraini Opposition to Saudi-Bahrain Merger Plan
May 29, 2012

“Iraqi Schools Reopen” Williamson Evers Appears on NPR in 2004
Jan. 28, 2004