Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of the article "Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past" in the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review is interviewed on The Federalist Radio Hour. Cargill discusses the history of the Progressivism and their policies of eugenics in the early 20th century. The widespread acceptance of eugenics in the United States, especially by progressives, is a troubling part of U.S. history unknown to many Americans, and the role model America provided for Nazi race law is even more troubling.

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Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Freedomworks Radio and discusses the proposed ethnic studies curriculum for California high school students. Evers wrote in a recent Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal that the curriculum is mostly about identity politics and ethnic victimization and is not balanced with positive examples of cultures' strengths and achievements. Evers also pointed to the curriculum's neglect of findings in economics, sociology, and political science.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers' recent Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal says the state’s new curriculum prefers victimization to minority achievement, and Marxism to liberal values. The proposed requirements will teach high school students about four ethnicities without focusing on some European or Jewish history. Instead of identity politics, students should be taught about entrepreneurship and resiliency instead of being trapped by your circumstances.

In 2017 and 2019, Independent's California Golden Fleece® Award was given to CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), U.S. Forest Service and other government agencies involved in forestland mismanagement. The reports offered the essential solutions to prevent future disasters, yet here we are again in 2020 with the state burning, and people losing their homes and lives with entire regions endangered and smoke-ridden.

In this second episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the track record and political ambitions of Kamala Harris, political hypocrisy and correctness, due process, gun control, progressivism, free speech and freedom of the press, Presidential powers and Executive Orders, teacher and police unions, school shutdowns and re-openings, cancel culture, Jimmy Lai and the protests in Hong Kong, and more!

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on SiriusXM radio's Breitbart News Tonight with host Jerome Hudson to talk about recent Executive Orders signed by President Trump. Eland compares Trump's Executive Orders to those of past presidents.

California's K-12 public schools are planning to introduce a new curriculum for teaching social justice and ethnic studies. Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers says the curriculum is full of lessons about victimization and racial identity, instead of stressing the culture assets of minorities and their capacity to achieve. Students should be taught about historical figures such as George Washington Carver and minority entrepreneurs, says Evers. The narrow focus of ethnic studies doesn't include positive examples from all minority groups and favors certain minority groups.