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Posted: Wed. December 13, 2023, 3:46pm PT

In this episode of Independent Conversations, historians Amity Shlaes and David Beito discuss FDR's policies of Japanese internment, spying on Americans, and violations of free speech and reveal a troubling portrait of FDR much different from the standard orthodoxy found in today’s historical studies.

Posted: Fri. November 24, 2023, 10:29am PT

Will free speech in America end up being a casualty of the war between Hamas and Israel? What does the domestic American DEI industry’s posture on the war reveal about their ideology? On other fronts, do we need to regulate Artificial Intelligence and how about banning TikTok? And why is Josh Hawley teaming up with Bernie Sanders to attack Citizens United?

Recommended Readings on Anti-Semitism

Posted: Fri. November 17, 2023, 9:44am PT

This weekend Argentineans go to the polls to choose between Peronist candidate Sergio Massa and libertarian Javier Milei. Independent Institute Research Fellow Gabriel Gasave analyzes what is at stake.

Posted: Thu. November 16, 2023, 9:46am PT

Steve Hanke, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, speaks at the event “Dollarization: A Solution for Argentina’s Economy?” co-organized with the Independent Institute and Universidad Catolica Argentina and the Fundación Atlas, on October 31, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Posted: Tue. November 14, 2023, 3:46pm PT

Dr. Atlas interviews Richard Corcoran, President of New College of Florida. They have an important and timely conversation about university education in the United States, including merit, free speech, and today's campus environment to develop the next generation of leaders for our country.

Posted: Mon. October 30, 2023, 11:33am PT

Dr. Atlas interviews Dr. Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. They discuss what's going on in Israel and the rest of the Middle East in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas, the importance of the Trump-era Abraham Accords, and what to make of the Biden policies in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Posted: Thu. October 26, 2023, 2:32pm PT

Independent Institute Research Fellow David Beito, author of The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance is interviewed on One America News Network’s Tipping Point with Kara McKinney.

Posted: Wed. October 25, 2023, 10:41am PT

This Capitol Hill event focuses on one of the most pressing topics of our time—the Covid lockdowns and the future of educational freedom in the West. Hosted by Senator Rand Paul, Dr. Scott Atlas and education expert and author James Tooley shed much-needed light on the harms inflicted on our children through the lockdowns and mandates and how the virus exposed the deep-rooted problems in America's state-run education system.