Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
10/24/2020	“CA Prop. 23 Plays Politics with Patients’ Lives” Research Fellow Adam Summers Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group syndicated papers
10/23/2020	“The Law of Guns 2020: CLE program on Oct. 26” Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook mentioned in Reason
10/23/2020	“Google Is Not a Monopoly” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
10/22/2020	“When Policies Collide” The Midas Paradox by Research Fellow Scott Sumner cited in National Review
10/21/2020	“Free Speech Is Embattled on Campus” Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Research Fellow Donald Downs cited in National Review and the The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
10/21/2020	“Bring the Classics Back to Education” Research Fellow Morgan E. Hunter, co-author of the 490 B.C. Project interviewed on Heartland Institute podcast
10/21/2020	“Think Tank Counters Critical Race Theory with ‘Liberty and Justice for All’ Message” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, creator of Independent’s Bibliograhphy “The Crisis in Civil Rights: Best Books and Articles on Race, Police, and the Welfare State” cited in Campus Reform
10/20/2020	“Ethnic studies: No Armenians need apply” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted on Linking and Thinking on Education by Joanne Jacobs
10/19/2020	“Will Things Ever Go Back to Normal?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in American Institute for Economic Research, Zerohedge and other websites
10/19/2020	“Like Free Speech? Don’t Send Your Kid to DePauw, Texas or LSU” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
10/19/2020	“In lead up to election, California voters still split on independent contractor ballot initiative” Research Fellow Adam Summers quoted in the Northern California Record
10/18/2020	“What Trump Has Done to Change Health Care and How It’s Helped Battle COVID-19” Marie Fishpaw and Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in National Review
10/16/2020	“Scholars Offer 490 B.C. Project to Bolster History Education” Independent Institute’s “490 B.C. Project” cited on Heartland.org
10/16/2020	“That Day My Father Won the Nobel Prize” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed on Merionwest.com
10/16/2020	“Nicaragua’s Crimes Against Humanity” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed on Inside Sources
10/14/2020	“Who’s Likelier to Take Your Guns Away? An Authoritarian Regime” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich quoted in the New York Daily News
10/13/2020	“Why California’s Democratic Governor Vetoed Ethnic Studies” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Education Next’s podcast The Education Exchange
10/13/2020	“Will America Remain a Democracy or Become a Monarchy?” Policy Fellow Ronald Trowbridge Op-Ed in The Hill
10/12/2020	“The Academic Taliban Are Winning! Can They Be Stopped?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
10/11/2020	“Death of a Propositional Nation” Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., author of Crossroads for Liberty and Patent Trolls Op-Ed in Chronicles
10/11/2020	“The Seeds of Our Divide” Independent Institute Executive Director Graham Walker appears on Thinkspot podcast
10/10/2020	“California Imposes Diversity Dogma on Corporate Boards” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker
10/10/2020	“A Critique of the Labor Theory of Value” Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy, author of Choice Op-Ed on Mises Wire
10/9/2020	“Resilient US Economy Has Overcome the COVID-19 Recession” Research Fellow David Ranson Op-Ed in Rome (GA) News-Tribune and other syndicated Tribune News Service newspapers
10/8/2020	“Public Option Health Plans Haven’t Lowered Premiums” Ed Haislmaier and Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in National Review
10/8/2020	“Proposition 24 Would Weaken Consumer Data Privacy” Research Associate Jonathan Hofer Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group syndicated newspapers
10/6/2020	“Voters’ Incentives and Terrible Public Policy” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
10/6/2020	“How Gov. Newsom’s Veto of Ethnic Studies Requirement Happened” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group syndicated newspapers
10/5/2020	“California: Reparations for What?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs mentioned in Townhall
10/5/2020	“How to Dramatically Cut College Costs While Increasing Learning” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
10/5/2020	“Corporations Must Do Their Part to Preserve Democracy” David J. Teece, Member of the Board of Directors of the Independent Institute, Op-Ed in The New York Times
10/4/2020	“California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum vs. Trump’s Patriotic Education” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the Bob Zadek Radio Show