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These articles, written by Independent Institute Research Fellows, were originally published in other publications, and are republished here. For other research articles, please see our Policy Reports, Working Papers, and The Independent Review.

No Right to “Bear Arms”? A Critical Analysis of United States v. Masciandaro
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  December 16, 2011
Rethinking Church and State
The Case of Environmental Religion
Robert H. Nelson  ·  October 1, 2011
Lack of Consistency Between Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends
S. Fred Singer  ·  June 1, 2011
Foreword to The Civilian and the Military, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
Ralph Raico  ·  April 4, 2011
The Economics of the Great Society
Theory, Policies, and Consequences
Robert Higgs  ·  February 1, 2011
Aim at the Zero Deficit Line
Craig Eyermann  ·  January 13, 2011
The IMF and Its Barbarous Relic
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 22, 2010
C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
David J. Theroux  ·  August 23, 2010
Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  May 1, 2010
Cumulating Policy Consequences, Frightened Overreactions, and the Current Surge of Government’s Size, Scope, and Power
Robert Higgs  ·  April 1, 2010
Principled Independence
Jordan Paul Smith  ·  October 7, 2009
The Bulgarian Economic Growth and Transition Project
Peter J. Hill, Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr.  ·  September 24, 2009
Who Needs One Big Market?
Joseph R. Stromberg  ·  March 18, 2009
“Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety”: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  March 2, 2009
Banning a Risky Product Cannot Improve Any Consumer’s Welfare (Properly Understood), with Applications to FDA Testing Requirements
Robert Higgs  ·  February 13, 2009
A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War
Hours Worked, 1929–1950
Robert Higgs  ·  February 2, 2009
Guilty as Charged
George A. Selgin  ·  November 7, 2008
Economic Science and the Poverty of Naturalism
C. S. Lewis’s “Argument from Reason”
David J. Theroux  ·  July 25, 2008
The Dehumanizing Impact of Modern Thought
Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Their Followers
Richard Weikart  ·  July 21, 2008
The Second Amendment Upholds an Individual Right
Amici Curiae Brief in D.C. v. Heller for 55 Senators, the Senate President, and 250 Members of the House of Representatives
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  March 10, 2008
If Men Were Angels
The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government
Robert Higgs  ·  June 11, 2007
The Gospel According to Conservation Biology
Robert H. Nelson  ·  June 1, 2007
St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty,”
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  April 1, 2007
Military-Economic Fascism: How Business Corrupts Government, and Vice Versa
Robert Higgs  ·  January 22, 2007
Nazism, the Second Amendment, and the NRA: A Reply to Professor Harcourt
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  December 23, 2006


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