Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of Sound Money, discusses her economic outlook for Donald Trump’s second term. She says his main concern is to re-energize the private sector and boost economic liberty with lower taxes and less regulation. She adds a pro-growth agenda would be more powerful than any tariffs Trump might impose.

Is President Biden’s massive student loan forgiveness really wise? Then looking at the K-12 world, teacher unions pushed hard to keep the schools closed as long as possible, but at what cost to students? We now have hard evidence that keeping kids out of the classroom tanked their test scores. Also, university history professors are going all in on wokeness. Finally, after the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, how should we assess his legacy?

When Nancy Pelosi touched down in Taiwan, the lawless communist mainland government of China threw a fit; does their overreaction mean that the United States should now overtly pledge in advance to fight against China if it invades Taiwan? Looking back at home, is the rule of law threatened by the recent FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago? And let’s hear it for the latest miracle political words: it’s called the “Inflation Reduction Act”—even though it will ramp up inflation!

High-caliber, low-cost schools are in demand in some of the poorest areas of the world. These schools are outperforming government schools and are organized by entrepreneurs and parents. Senior Fellow James Tooley speaks with John Batchelor about his new book Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education and why this revolution may be coming to America.

The June 12 summit with President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is back on after it was cancelled earlier. Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Eleven Presidents analyzes expectations for the United States, including nuclear capabilities of North Korea. Eland feels that denuclearization of the Korean peninsula may not be viable, but there is progress that can be made by the historic meeting.

Independent Institute Senior Fellow James Tooley's presentation at the "Good Profit: How Profitable Business Can be a Force for Good" Conference, co-sponsored by the Independent institute with the Napa Institute at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2017.

MSNBC reporter Richard Engel interviews North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park. Yeonmi Park was honored with the Alexis de Tocqueville Award by the Independent Institute on September 22, 2017.

Full video of the Independent Institute’s 30th Anniversary Gala for the Future of Liberty. We celebrated our past successes and honored with the Alexis de Tocqueville Award world-renowned, tech-entrepreneur Timothy C. Draper; Nobel Laureate economist Vernon L. Smith; and North Korean refugee, defector, and human-rights activist Yeonmi Park.