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Commentary
Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed?
Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed? Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice pick, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism.
Victor Davis Hanson | Apr. 12, 2021
How Did the Cancel Culture Become Dominant So Quickly?
How Did the Cancel Culture Become Dominant So Quickly?
John C. Goodman | Apr. 6, 2021
Clashing with Two Great Powers at Once Is Bad Policy
Clashing with Two Great Powers at Once Is Bad Policy
Ivan Eland | Apr. 3, 2021
California’s Next Attorney General Rob Bonta is a Champion ...
California’s Next Attorney General Rob Bonta is a Champion of Government Greed
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Apr. 2, 2021
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Book Reviews
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
Reviewed By J. Daniel Hammond
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
Reviewed By J. Daniel Hammond
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
Wilfred M. McClay
Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
Wilfred M. McClay
Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples
Great Society: A New History
Amity Shlaes
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger
Great Society: A New History
Amity Shlaes
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger
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Research
The Progressive Era and the Family
The Progressive Era and the Family
By Murray N. Rothbard
Research Article | Dec. 28, 2020
Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
By Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman, Abigail Devereaux
Research Article | Oct. 6, 2020
Today’s Relevance of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Today’s Relevance of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
By Donald J. Boudreaux
The Independent Review | Mar. 1, 2020
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Independent Institute Books
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Videos
Race & Liberty in America
SCOTUS: From RBG to ACB, Court Packing & More | Graham ...
Pandemic, Prejudice & Protests: TRM Howard and a Better ...
How to Restore Freedom to Americans in This Time of ...
COVID-19 Crisis: Reining in the Government’s Harmful ...
War on Poverty or War on the Poor? The Great Society’s ...
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on C-SPAN Discusses the History ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Champion or Opponent of Liberty ...
Economics, Politics, and Public Choice | Ivan Pongracic
Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
Ivan Eland Speaks on “Recarving Rushmore” ...
Ivan Eland on Ramifications of WW1
Robert Higgs on the Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and ...
Anthony Gregory on The Total State
CPAC Interview: Ivan Eland Talks Recarving Rushmore
Anthony Gregory on Independent Watch: The Bellicosity ...
John C. Goodman at P.A.U.L. Festival 2012
John C. Goodman on Special Report with Bret Baier: ...
Ben Powell on Immigration Myths
National Dinner to Honor Robert A. Conquest


Audio
“Arguments Against the Minimum Wage” Sr. Fellow John Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on the Michael Berry radio show
Mar. 22, 2021
“Abolish Daylight Savings?” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II appears on the Michael Smerconish radio show on SiriusXM
Mar. 15, 2021
Research Fellow Anthony Lupo, co-author of Hot Talk, Cold Science appears on KVOR radio
Feb. 28, 2021
Research Fellow Anthony Lupo, co-author of Hot Talk, Cold Science appears on the Alan Nathan Radio Show
Feb. 24, 2021
“Conservative Identity Crisis” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on WIND radio's Dan Proft Show
Feb. 17, 2021
“My Family's Battle with Obamacare Exchanges” Independent Institute Publications and Public Affairs Counsel Christopher Briggs appears on WCBM Baltimore.
Feb. 10, 2021
“Biden’s Education Policy” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on WIND radio’s Dan Proft Show
Jan. 7, 2021
“Executive Orders—Past and Present” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM radio
Aug. 11, 2020
“Eugenics and Margaret Sanger” Thomas Cargill interviewed on WIND radio
July 29, 2020
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland on the Lars Larson Radio Show on Presidential History
Nov. 9, 2017
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Elder radio show on KRLA
Oct. 9, 2015
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland Interviewed on Doug Stephan’s Good Day Radio Show
Aug. 6, 2015










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