Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
7/7/2020	“UNC president-elect’s performance pay could set national example” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Laurinburg Exchange
7/7/2020	“Government Should Not Force People to Wear Masks. We Should Do It Voluntarily” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Federalist
7/7/2020	“Assembly Bill 5 Undercuts the Ability of Workers to Work” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5, Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group newspapers
7/7/2020	“Online Learning Hiccups Lead to Civil Liberty Threats” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Research Associate Jonathan Hofer Op-Ed in The Hill
7/6/2020	“Florida’s Standards ‘Better than the Common Core,’ Institute Says” Independent Institute Briefing—Better than Common Core: Florida’s New K-12 Standards Raise the Bar cited in the Tampa Bay Times
7/6/2020	“The Seen and Unseen: Rajagopalan and Tabarrok” Sr. Fellow Alex Tabarrok and Shruti Rajagopalan co-author of The Independent Review article “Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State” cited in Marginal Revolution
7/5/2020	“Elite Imitation in Public Policy” Sr. Fellow Alex Tabarrok and Shruti Rajagopalan co-author of The Independent Review article “Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State” appear on The Seen and the Unseen podcast
7/5/2020	“Are American Universities Losing Their Lead in Scientific Research?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
7/3/2020	“Charters Close the Achievement Gap, Says Thomas Sowell” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/2/2020	“Harvard, Yale and Princeton Embarrass, but Cornell Shines” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
7/1/2020	“Rand Paul Is Right about Experts” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/1/2020	“What the Coronavirus Reveals about Emerging Countries” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in Inside Sources
7/1/2020	“Want to Kill the Economy Again? Keep Threatening More Lockdowns.” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs and The Independent Review cited on Mises.org and Eurasia Review
6/30/2020	“America Should Recapture Wisdom of Jefferson and Smith” Research Fellow Donald Boudreaux Op-Ed on Real Clear History
6/29/2020	“The Complicated Ethics of Price Gouging” Matt Zwolinski, contributor to The Independent Review Op-Ed in The Epoch Times
6/29/2020	“Short-Term Insurance Is Not the Problem. It’s the Solution” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
6/29/2020	“Will More Unemployment Increase Fall College Enrollments?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/27/2020	“Was the Janus Decision a Win for Independent Workers?” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Daily Caller
6/26/2020	“The Fed’s Reckless Experiment” Research Fellow Burton Abrams, author of The Terrible 10: A Century of Economic Folly Op-Ed in The Hill
6/26/2020	“California Accelerates Pressure on Uber, Lyft Drivers Becoming Employees” Independent Institute Executive Director Graham Walker appears on The Ken and John Show on KFI AM 640 Radio in Los Angeles, CA
6/26/2020	“AB5—The CA ‘Gig’ Law’s Status” Senior Fellow Bill Evers appears on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 “The Answer” KTKZ Radio in Sacramento, CA
6/26/2020	“Why We Weren’t Ready for Covid-19” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
6/24/2020	“College for Cops? Studies Show It Helps Their Behavior, Stress Levels” Research Fellow Ronald Kimberling Op-Ed in The Hill
6/24/2020	“Coal’s Black Cloud Has a Silver Lining for the Arid American West” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II Op-Ed in The Hill
6/24/2020	“America’s War Zone: Guilt and Stupidity Fuel Extreme Grievances and Violence” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in The Washington Times
6/23/2020	Gun Control in the Third Reich by Sr. Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook is reviewed in eVeritas (Royal Military Colleges Club, Canada)
6/23/2020	“The Decline of the American University” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/22/2020	“Closing Schools Was a Grievous Error” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers Op-Ed in Real Clear Education
6/21/2020	“Millenarian Mobs—An Old and Dangerous Story” Angelo Codevilla, Member of the Board of Advisors for The Independent Review Op-Ed in the Claremont Review of Books
6/20/2020	“How California’s AB5 Law Threatens Entrepreneurship: From Uber drivers to freelance writers, AB5 will upend countless lives,” by Luka Ladan (Catalyst)
6/18/2020	“Court rejects HHS rule to include drug prices in TV ads” Research Fellow Raymond March quoted on Healio.com
6/17/2020	“Are College Professors Less Supportive of Black Students?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes