Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
9/2/2020	“Cancel Culture and Margaret Sanger” Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of The Independent Review article “Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past” appears on Steel on Steel News Radio with John Loeffler
9/1/2020	“As colleges confront COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, endowments deserve scrutiny” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quoted on NBCNews.com
9/1/2020	“Restorative Justice Is Unfair to Students Who Want to Learn” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, author of Victim’s Rights, Restitution and Retribution and Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure Op-Ed in American Thinker
9/1/2020	“Ethnic studies: Still heavy on jargon, ‘resistance’” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers cited on JoanneJacobs.com
9/1/2020	“California Ethnic Studies Victimization” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Freedomworks Radio
8/31/2020	“Study: Public Schools Hide Planned Parenthood’s Extermination of the ‘Unfit’” Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of The Independent Review article “Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past” quoted on TheFederalist.com
8/31/2020	“2025: Google U. Vs. Microsoft U.?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/31/2020	“Ballot Initiatives: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Founders’ Second Amendment, Gun Control in the Third Reich and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France Op-Ed in America’s 1st Freedom
8/31/2020	“Education Expert Says CA Ethnic Studies Curriculum Excludes Many Ethnic Groups” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on KUSI TV
8/31/2020	“California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Update” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on the Lars Larson radio show
8/29/2020	“Reflections on the Response to Hurricane Katrina After Fifteen Years” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes mentions Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan
8/27/2020	“The Power of ‘No’” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
8/27/2020	“‘Critical’ Ethnic Studies Returns to California” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal
8/26/2020	“Expand Dual Enrollment Programs for Pandemic-Challenged High School Students” Research Fellow Ronald Kimberling Op-Ed in The Hill
8/25/2020	“Why Isn’t Tuition Lower if Most College Classes Are Online? Good Question.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quote in Money
8/25/2020	“Five Books on Macroeconomics” The Midas Paradox by Research Fellow Scott Sumner cited in EconLib.org and USSA News
8/25/2020	“Crisis, Leviathan, and COVID” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Heartland.org
8/24/2020	“Should Racial Information Even Be Collected for College Admissions?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/24/2020	“Uber, Lyft granted stay in AB5 court case; ‘Argument the companies keep making is we are platforms, we are go-betweens’” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5 quoted in the Northern California Record
8/24/2020	“A Pandemic of Socialism” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in American Thinker
8/21/2020	“Precaution Can Kill—During a Pandemic and Beyond” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart and Research Fellow Pierre Lemieux Op-Ed in the National Newswatch
8/21/2020	“Happy Birthday to Libertarian Firebrand Walter Block” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
8/20/2020	“How Government Roads Expand Police Power in America” Research Fellow Tate Fegley Op-Ed on Mises.org
8/20/2020	“Ohio University’s Identity Crisis Shows the Struggles of Regional Public Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder quoted on NBCNews.com
8/20/2020	“CSU Students Will Be Required to Take Ethnic Studies Course to Graduate” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted in The Epoch Times
8/20/2020	“Can we reclaim our freedom?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Alabama Todayand Yellow Hammer News
8/19/2020	“A Three-Item Post-Pandemic Regulatory Wishlist” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
8/19/2020	“Will Lyft and Uber Bolt California Over State’s Anti-Independent Contractor Law?” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5 quoted in Forbes
8/18/2020	“Yes, It Was “Real Socialism.” No, We Shouldn’t Try Again.” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
8/17/2020	“Chaos on Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/16/2020	“California Ballot Contains Four Unconstitutional Propositions” Policy Fellow Ronald L. Trowbridge Op-Ed in The Hill
8/15/2020	“Feinstein’s Courtship of Communist China” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker