Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
3/11/2024	“The Potted Plants of Higher Education” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
3/11/2024	“Amid High Fives for Sweden’s Entry into NATO, Scary Talk Is Afoot” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in The National Interest
3/11/2024	“How to Reform Social Security—Part 1” Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care Op-Ed in Forbes
3/10/2024	“Our National Nightmare of Springing Forward and Falling Back Just Keeps Recurring” Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II Op-Ed in The Hill
3/9/2024	“California Failed the Lab Test—And More Illegal Chinese Biolabs May Exist Across the Country” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
3/8/2024	“How are Immigrants Shaping Culture?” Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell interviewed on the EconBuff Podcast
3/8/2024	“Division of Labor Makes Us Wealthy...And Fragile” Senior Fellow Michael Munger Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
3/8/2024	“Lessons from Gov. Newsom’s PaneraGate Scandal” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and Southern California Newsgroup affiliated newspapers
3/7/2024	“What’s Wrong with the U.S. Welfare State?” Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care Op-Ed in Forbes
3/7/2024	“Give Parents Educational Choice, Save K-12 Systems Millions” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children Op-Ed on The Bluegrass Institute blog
3/7/2024	“Don’t Make California Health Care Worse Than It Already Is” Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care and Linda Gorman Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and affiliated Southern California News Group newspapers
3/6/2024	“The Dark Side of FDR” Senior Fellow David Beito, author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights interviewed on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute podcast
3/6/2024	“Stealing Oswald the Rabbit” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on The Library of Economics and Liberty
3/5/2024	“FDR’s Infringement on the Rights of Citizens, Opponents, and the Media” Senior Fellow David Beito, author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights interviewed on Northern Alliance Radio
3/4/2024	“The Miracle of Milei: Argentina Could Spark a Passionate Embrace of Individual Liberty—and Prosperity” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold Op-Ed in the New York Sun
3/4/2024	Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism interviewed on National Review’s The Bookmonger podcast
3/4/2024	“Trump Deserves Only a Participation Trophy in the NATO and Ukraine Debates” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in Inside Sources
3/4/2024	“Like Most of Humanity, Most Argentines Are Cowards” Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Neither Liberty nor Safety cited in Real Clear Markets
3/2/2024	“WANTED: CEO for America’s Oldest & Largest Civil Rights Organization. Only Qualified Applicants Need Apply” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms mentioned in Ammoland
3/1/2024	“UC Berkeley promises criminal investigation into antisemitic mob after being slammed for ‘selective silence’” Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews quoted in the Washington Examiner
2/29/2024	“Flock Installed AI Cameras in This Small City and Claimed Crime Went Down. It Went Up.” Research Associate Jonathan Hofer, author of the report “The Pitfalls of Law Enforcement License Plate Readers in California and Safeguards to Protect the Public” quoted in Forbes
2/29/2024	“What to Do about Our Biggest Health Care Problems” Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care Op-Ed in Forbes
2/29/2024	“Time for U.S. Jews to Rethink Their Democratic Loyalties” Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews Op-Ed in Inside Sources and affiliated newspapers
2/29/2024	“How Rich People Create Poverty” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
2/28/2024	“To Fight Corruption, San Francisco Must Decriminalize Construction” Research Fellow Christopher Calton Op-Ed on the California Globe
2/28/2024	“Warren Buffett’s $168 billion cash pile signals he expects stocks to slide and a recession to strike’ Senior Fellow Steve Hanke quoted in Business Insider
2/28/2024	“California Versus Free Speech: Mobsters Who Attacked Riley Gaines Get Off Scot-Free” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/28/2024	“Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Garland v. Cargill” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms speaks in Federalist Society Webinar on Thursday, February 29. (Registration required)
2/27/2024	“Is the US Bankrupt?” Senior Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Pope Francis and the Caring Society and Is Social Justice Just?” interviewed on Kresta in the Afternoon on the EWTN network.
2/27/2024	“Leap Day Wants a Little Respect” Senior Fellow Steve Hanke quoted in The New York Times
2/27/2024	“California’s Proposition 1 Could Be an Improvement if More Reforms Follow” Research Fellow Carolyn Gorman Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and Southern California News Group affiliated newspapers
2/26/2024	“Why do we leap day? We remind you (so you can forget for another 4 years)” Senior Fellow Steve Hanke quoted on NPR.org