Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker interview Independent Senior Fellow Christopher Coyne to discuss Independent's shocking new article on the alarming extension of government power in the U.S.—the long-term consequences of which are devastating to civil society, economic welfare and the rule of law.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on The Education Exchange podcast with Paul E. Peterson to discuss California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of AB 331, a bill that would have mandated a course in ethnic studies as a California high school graduation requirement, starting in 2029-30. Newsom said the model curriculum was unbalanced and needed extensive revision. The curriculum would have taught students that capitalism is not a system of private property and investment, but that capitalism is merely a system of exploitation of labor. This is a similar view held by Karl Marx.

California legislators are attempting to mandate that public K-12 schools teach a highly-divisive “ethnic studies” curriculum with Marxist underpinnings and socialist conclusions. If left unchecked, this false curriculum won't stay in California. It will be exported to other states and communities across the country.

Dr. Walker interviews Dr. Evers regarding the deep insights and towering achievements of that civilization—valuable in their own right—and how such insights once enabled Americans, who were immersed in the classics, to reach beyond partisan differences by drawing on shared knowledge and lessons from the past.

In this fifth episode of Independent Outlook, Independent Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., joins with Williamson Evers and Graham Walker to examine President Trump’s nomination of U.S. Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Presidential Debates, the recent Breonna Taylor grand jury decision and riots, and more!

In this fourth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine "Millenarian Mobs" and "utopian" street violence, leftist assassinations of police officers, government responsibility for the California wildfires, woke culture and football, Judeo-Christianty and civic virtue, Milton Friedman and corporate responsibility, and more!

In this third episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine ethnic studies, identify politics and tribalism, critical race theory, victimization, envy, civil rights, political corruption, individual liberty, personal responsibility, K-12 schools and school choice, racism and anti-Semitism, police unions and reform, the welfare state and poverty, looting, property rights, due process, the rule of law, and more!

Roads, highways, offices, and schools were being rebuilt in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Williamson Evers was recruited by the George W. Bush White House to travel to Iraq in 2003 and help reopen the schools there. He was interviewed in 2004 by NPR's Day to Day program. Evers wrote an Op-Ed in 2020 comparing the Iraq situation with the COVID-19 epidemic and the reopening of American schools.