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The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books

The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books: A Visit to Hipster Brooklyn

Naomi R. Wolf | Mar. 20, 2023

Spy Balloons Steered National Security Toward the Sky: Are ...

Spy Balloons Steered National Security Toward the Sky: Are ‘Exotic’ UFOs Next?

Dominick T. Armentano | Mar. 13, 2023

Dear Conservatives, I Apologize

Dear Conservatives, I Apologize: My “team” was taken in by full-spectrum propaganda

Naomi R. Wolf | Mar. 13, 2023

The Garage Papers

The Garage Papers: From Alger Hiss to Sandy Berger, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, it’s all about memory against forgetting.

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Jan. 18, 2023

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Book Reviews

DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington

By David Schoenbrod
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington

By David Schoenbrod
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance ...

Glenn Greenwald
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From

Daniel Pipes
Reviewed By Jesse Walker

Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From

Daniel Pipes
Reviewed By Jesse Walker

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Research

#TimesUp: California Government Officials Shielded from Sexual Misconduct Accountability ...

#TimesUp: California Government Officials Shielded from Sexual Misconduct Accountability at Taxpayers’ Expense

By Lawrence J. McQuillan, et al.
Briefing | Nov. 9, 2018

Why We Fight: A Study of U.S. Government War-Making Propaganda

Why We Fight: A Study of U.S. Government War-Making Propaganda

By David R. Henderson, et al.
The Independent Review | July 1, 2018

Better Than Government: A New Way of Managing Life’s Risks

Better Than Government: A New Way of Managing Life’s Risks

By John C. Goodman
Policy Report | Oct. 6, 2016

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Independent Institute Books

Videos

Chinese Balloon Saga, Ukraine Endgame, Cancel Roald ...

Young Americans and the Delusional Appeal of Socialism

Civil Liberties and the Surveillance State | Mary L. ...

Ivan Eland: The Impact of War on the Presidency

Richard Vedder: Is Majoring in English Worth It?

Love Gov Video Series: Presentation at Draper University

Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate

The Surveillance State | Abigail Hall Blanco

Freedom Act, Patriot Act or Status Quo Act

Ivan Eland on Edward Snowden’s NBC News Interview

Ivan Eland Discusses Snowden’s Temporary Asylum ...

Reaction to the Conviction of Bradley Manning by Research ...

Ivan Eland on Cyber Insecurity After US Drone Downing

Charles Peña on‬ the Imperial Presidency

Ivan Eland on Russia, Wikileaks, and the START Treaty

Ivan Eland on WikiLeaks Footage

Robert Higgs on Federal Reserve Transparency

Bush, Obama, and Presidential Power

Secrecy, Freedom and Empire: Lessons for Today from ...

The U.S. War on Terrorism: Myths and Realities

Big Brother is Watching

Pearl Harbor: Official Lies in an American War Tragedy?

Freedom, Terror, and Falsehoods: Lessons from the Twentieth ...

Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War: How Government ...

Audio

Chinese Balloon Saga, Ukraine Endgame, Cancel Roald Dahl? | Independent Outlook 50
Feb. 24, 2023

“Government Failures at Home and Abroad” Sr. Fellow Christopher J. Coyne, author of In Search of Monsters to Destroy interviewed on The Shaun Thompson Show on WIND radio.
Jan. 24, 2023

“Privacy Rights and ALPRs” Independent Institute Research Associate Jonathan Hofer, author of the Report “The Pitfalls of Law Enforcement License Plate Readers in California and Safeguards to Protect the Public” interviewed on the Jim Bohannon radio show
Sep. 8, 2022

“Progressive’s History of Eugenics” Research Fellow Thomas Cargill appears on The Federalist Radio Hour
Sep. 18, 2020

“Your Taxes Pay for Politicians’ Bad Behavior” Lawrence McQuillan appears on KOGO radio
Dec. 4, 2018

Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan appears on the Andy Caldwell Show on KUHL radio
Nov. 14, 2018

Mary Theroux on ARNN—Snowden and the Surveillance State
July 22, 2013

Vern McKinley Interviewed by Marie Stroughter
Feb. 22, 2012

Vern McKinley Interviewed by Peter Schiff
Jan. 11, 2012

Vern McKinley Interviewed by Andy Parks on TWT Radio
Jan. 10, 2012

Vern McKinley Interviewed on The KCMO Morning Show
Jan. 10, 2012

Ivan Eland on Wikileaks Revelations
July 30, 2010

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