In this fourth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine "Millenarian Mobs" and "utopian" street violence, leftist assassinations of police officers, government responsibility for the California wildfires, woke culture and football, Judeo-Christianty and civic virtue, Milton Friedman and corporate responsibility, and more!

In this third episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine ethnic studies, identify politics and tribalism, critical race theory, victimization, envy, civil rights, political corruption, individual liberty, personal responsibility, K-12 schools and school choice, racism and anti-Semitism, police unions and reform, the welfare state and poverty, looting, property rights, due process, the rule of law, and more!

Roads, highways, offices, and schools were being rebuilt in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Williamson Evers was recruited by the George W. Bush White House to travel to Iraq in 2003 and help reopen the schools there. He was interviewed in 2004 by NPR's Day to Day program. Evers wrote an Op-Ed in 2020 comparing the Iraq situation with the COVID-19 epidemic and the reopening of American schools.

Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of the article "Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past" in the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review is interviewed on The Federalist Radio Hour. Cargill discusses the history of the Progressivism and their policies of eugenics in the early 20th century. The widespread acceptance of eugenics in the United States, especially by progressives, is a troubling part of U.S. history unknown to many Americans, and the role model America provided for Nazi race law is even more troubling.

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Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers appears on Freedomworks Radio and discusses the proposed ethnic studies curriculum for California high school students. Evers wrote in a recent Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal that the curriculum is mostly about identity politics and ethnic victimization and is not balanced with positive examples of cultures' strengths and achievements. Evers also pointed to the curriculum's neglect of findings in economics, sociology, and political science.

Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers' recent Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal says the state’s new curriculum prefers victimization to minority achievement, and Marxism to liberal values. The proposed requirements will teach high school students about four ethnicities without focusing on some European or Jewish history. Instead of identity politics, students should be taught about entrepreneurship and resiliency instead of being trapped by your circumstances.

In 2017 and 2019, Independent's California Golden Fleece® Award was given to CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), U.S. Forest Service and other government agencies involved in forestland mismanagement. The reports offered the essential solutions to prevent future disasters, yet here we are again in 2020 with the state burning, and people losing their homes and lives with entire regions endangered and smoke-ridden.