Co-editor and managing director of The Independent Review, Robert M. Whaples presentation at the Napa Institute Conference held in Napa, CA on July 29, 2017.

Co-editor and managing director of The Independent Review, Robert M. Whaples presentation at the Napa Institute Conference held in Napa, CA on July 27, 2017.

A conversation about the Future of Liberty with Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Vernon L. Smith, North Korean refugee and human rights activist Yeonmi Park, and entrepreneur Timothy C. Draper, moderated by author P.J. O'Rourke at the 30th Anniversary Gala for the Future of Liberty held on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.

Bestselling author and political humorist P. J. O’Rourke presentation at the 30th Anniversary Gala for the Future of Liberty held on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.

Throughout the world, America has been known as the “land of the free.” Today however, real life in the United States is quite different from the famous promise. Over the past century, the U.S. government has grown astronomically as the average citizen’s life is increasingly taxed, regulated, and spied upon. In the last few years alone, federal spending has skyrocketed by almost 30%, creating the largest deficit in U.S. history and extensive corporate welfare, pork, and abuses of civil and economic liberties. In his work, noted legal scholar Richard Epstein goes to the root of the problem, addressing the moral and conceptual foundations of liberty and how they have been systematically undermined. Should individuals be free to make their own peaceful choices or should decisions by special interests in the name of the “public good” be imposed by force? What about property rights, taxes, regulation, civil rights, and the welfare state? At this Independent Policy Forum, Richard Epstein and historian and economist Jeffrey Rogers Hummel will discuss why the time has come for a bold new defense of the free society

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of the new book Eleven Presidents, appears on the Patriot Tonight show on SiriusXM radio. Eland joins host Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee. The two discuss President Trump's tax, trade, and economic policies, and the policies of past administrations.

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of the new book Eleven Presidents, appears on the nationally syndicated Lars Larson radio show. Eland begins talking about President Trump’s “draining the swamp” in the year since Trump’s election. Republican tax cuts and tax reform and the history of tax reform is also discussed.

Independent Institute presented the Alexis de Tocqueville Award to Timothy C. Draper, entrepreneur and visionary, at the Gala for the Future of Liberty held on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.