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Articles written by Robert M. Whaples in The Independent Review:

Get Married
Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
Book Review
Fall 2024
Climate and Energy
The Case for Realism
Book Review
Fall 2024
Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change
The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
Book Review
Fall 2024
The Journey of Humanity
The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
Book Review
Summer 2024
Of Boys and Men
Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Book Review
Summer 2024
These United States
Our Nation’s Geography, History and People
Classic Book Review
Summer 2024
A Vision of a Productive Free Society
Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty
Article
Spring 2024
GOAT
Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?
Book Review
Spring 2024
Everyday Freedom
Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
Book Review
Spring 2024
The Two-Parent Privilege
How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Book Review
Spring 2024
The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation
The Ethics of Procreation
Book Review
Winter 2023/24
Reality Is Tricky
Contrarian Takes on Contested Economic Issues
Book Review
Winter 2023/24
Social Justice Fallacies
Book Review
Winter 2023/24
Underappreciated Economists
Article
Fall 2023
Julian Simon
Irreplaceable Economist, Irreplaceable Man
Article
Fall 2023
Can College Level the Playing Field?
Higher Education in an Unequal Society
Book Review
Fall 2023
Let’s Be Reasonable
A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
Book Review
Fall 2023
Best Things First
The 12 Most Efficient Solutions for the World’s Poorest and Our Global SDG Promises
Book Review
Summer 2023
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Classic Book Review
Summer 2023
Superabundance
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
Book Review
Summer 2023
Electrify
An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
Book Review
Spring 2023
Climate Future
Averting and Adapting to Climate Change
Book Review
Spring 2023
Fragile Futures
The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change
Book Review
Spring 2023
The Future of Higher Education
Article
Winter 2022/23
National Founders and Founding Choices
Etceteras
Winter 2022/23
Fossil Future
Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
Book Review
Winter 2022/23
Live Long and Prosper?
The Economics of Ageing Populations
Book Review
Fall 2022
Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It
Book Review
Fall 2022
The Wisdom of David J. Theroux (1949–2022)
Tribute
Summer 2022
Hollowed Out
A Warning about America’s Next Generation
Book Review
Summer 2022
Inflation
What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It
Book Review
Summer 2022
Geoengineering
The Gamble
Book Review
Summer 2022
Where Do the Poorest Americans Stand in the Income Distribution among All People Ever Born?
Etceteras
Summer 2022
No Brainers and Low-Hanging Fruit in National Climate Policy
Book Review
Spring 2022
Unmasked
The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates
Book Review
Spring 2022
Cynical Theories; The Parasitic Mind
Book Review
Spring 2022
Cynical Theories; The Parasitic Mind
Book Review
Spring 2022
Capitalism after Covid
Conversations with 21 Economists
Book Review
Winter 2021/22
Unsettled?
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
Book Review
Winter 2021/22
Capitalism and Inequality
The Role of State and Market
Book Review
Winter 2021/22
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Book Review
Fall 2021
The Great Demographic Reversal
Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Book Review
Fall 2021
A Time to Build
From Family and Community to Congress and Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
Book Review
Fall 2021
Aquinas and the Market
Toward a Humane Economy
Book Review
Summer 2021
Adapting to Climate Change: Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future; Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change
Book Review
Summer 2021
Adapting to Climate Change: Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future; Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change
Book Review
Summer 2021
The Spirit of Green
The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
Book Review
Summer 2021
Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
Book Review
Spring 2021
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Book Review
Spring 2021
Was Jesus a Socialist?
Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong
Book Review
Spring 2021
Introduction: The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature
Article
Winter 2020/21
The Political Economy of Joseph Conrad
Article
Winter 2020/21
Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Book Review
Winter 2020/21
Possessed
Why We Want More Than We Need
Book Review
Fall 2020
Land of Hope
An Invitation to the Great American Story
Book Review
Fall 2020
In Praise of Walking
A New Scientific Exploration
Book Review
Fall 2020
Twelve Perspectives on the Pandemic
International Social Science Thought Leaders Reflect on COVID-19
Book Review
Summer 2020
Coronavirus and Economic Crisis
Book Review
Summer 2020
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life after Warming
Book Review
Summer 2020
Reconsidering the Classics of Political Economy
Article
Spring 2020
Why Didn’t Galbraith Convince Us That America Is an Affluent Society?
Article
Spring 2020
Economics in the Time of COVID-19
Book Review
Spring 2020
Debunking Howard Zinn
Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America
Book Review
Spring 2020
Coming Home
Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul
Book Review
Spring 2020
Why Nationalism; The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Book Review
Winter 2019/20
Why Nationalism; The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Book Review
Winter 2019/20
Them
Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal
Book Review
Winter 2019/20
Big Business
A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
Book Review
Fall 2019
Socialism Sucks
Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World
Book Review
Fall 2019
Introduction: New Thinking about Social Justice
Article
Summer 2019
Why Culture Matters Most
Book Review
Summer 2019
The University We Need
Reforming American Higher Education
Book Review
Summer 2019
Carbon Capture
Book Review
Spring 2019
Springtime for Snowflakes
Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
Book Review
Spring 2019
The Road to Crony Capitalism: An Introduction
Article
Winter 2018/19
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Book Review
Winter 2018/19
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Book Review
Winter 2018/19
Green Tyranny
Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
Book Review
Winter 2018/19
How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us
The Discipline at a Crossroads
Book Review
Winter 2018/19
The Infinite Desire for Growth
Book Review
Fall 2018
The War against Cash
Book Review
Summer 2018
Dream Hoarders
How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do about It
Book Review
Spring 2018
Symposium on Immigration
An Introduction
Article
Winter 2017/18
The Death of Humanity and the Case for Life
Book Review
Winter 2017/18
The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Article
Fall 2017
A Pope and A President
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the Twentieth Century
Book Review
Fall 2017
Economics Rules
The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
Book Review
Summer 2017
New Thinking on Egalitarianism
Article
Summer 2017
The Language of Economics
Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions
Book Review
Spring 2017
The Economics of Pope Francis
An Introduction
Article
Winter 2016/17
Passing on the Right
Conservative Professors in the Progressive University
Book Review
Fall 2016
The Conservative Heart
How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
Book Review
Spring 2016
The Philanthropic Revolution
An Alternative History of American Charity
Book Review
Spring 2016
The Economic Future
An Introduction
Article
Winter 2015/16
Hubris
Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
Book Review
Fall 2015
Skeptical Thoughts on a Taxpayer-Funded Basic Income Guarantee
Article
Spring 2015
A Feathered River across the Sky
The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction
Book Review
Winter 2014/15
The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future
Book Review
Summer 2014
Symposium on Successful Presidential Economic Policies
Introduction
Article
Spring 2014
Were Andrew Jackson’s Policies “Good for the Economy”?
Article
Spring 2014
Ten Economic Lessons from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Reflections
Winter 2013/14
Becoming Europe
Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Book Review
Winter 2013/14
Collapse? The “Dismal” Science Doesn’t Think So
Economists’ Views of the Future
Article
Fall 2006
A Prelude to the Welfare State
The Origins of Workers’ Compensation
Book Review
Fall 2001


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