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Posted: Sun. April 11, 2021, 8:21pm PT

This video features the compelling presentation by Dr. Scott W. Atlas after he received the Freedom Leadership Award from Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry P. Arnn at their National Leadership Seminar on February 18, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Scott W. Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Atlas has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to a number of candidates for President of the United States, as well as having counseled members of the U.S. Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key agencies in the federal government. He served from August to December, 2020, as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He received a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an M.D. from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

Posted: Mon. April 5, 2021, 12:39pm PT

Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care is interviewed on the Jim Bohannon radio show. Eliminating regulations has enabled virtual visits to doctors. But the rule is temporary during the Covid-19 crisis. Goodman talks about the consequences of removing such regulations and how the healthcare industry can compete for customers when the market is unleashed to make improvements to care.

Posted: Mon. April 5, 2021, 11:18am PT

Research Fellow David Ranson, author of the Executive Summary Does Government "Stimulus" Really Stimulate? appears on Liberty Watch radio with host Charles Heller. Ranson discusses how economies can bounce back from shock's—such as government shutdowns—without excess government spending.

Posted: Wed. March 31, 2021, 2:10pm PT

In this sixteenth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine immigration, the unprecedented border crisis and the welfare state; the filibuster and the new threats to liberty; mass shootings and the attacks on the Second Amendment right to self-defense; woke racism/supremacy and critical race theory; the "For the People Act" (H.R. 1) partisan power grab; and much more.

Posted: Wed. March 31, 2021, 2:08pm PT

Overheated rhetoric has politicized and misinformed the public about the earth’s climate. Renowned physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer’s classic book on global warming—and antidote to unscientific claims—"Hot Talk, Cold Science" has been updated and expanded (twice the size of the previous edition), incorporating numerous recent scientific findings, making this fascinating and complex subject accessible to general readers.

Posted: Sun. March 28, 2021, 9:55pm PT

In this compelling Independent Conversation, renowned civil rights scholar and bestselling author Dr. Shelby Steele is interviewed by Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker on the issues of race, liberty, and law in America, and in the process, they examine the crucial issues addressed in Dr. Steele's documentary, “What Killed Michael Brown?”

Posted: Fri. March 26, 2021, 2:37pm PT

Independent Institute Senior Fellow Williamson Evers is interviewed about California's curriculum to teach Ethnic Studies in schools. Some suggest teaching the curriculum to Kindergarten students through high school. Evers says the curriculum misses the opportunity to teach how different racial groups have added to the history and founding of the United States and instead it vilifies white people as oppressors of other groups.

Posted: Mon. March 22, 2021, 1:30pm PT

Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care discusses minimum wage laws. If higher wage prices are mandated for employers, where does the money come from, asks Goodman. For some businesses, labor costs are the largest cost. Teenagers are usually the ones who are let go if wage prices increase. Teens who keep their jobs are most likely in the suburbs, and those most likely to lose their jobs are from low-income households.