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At this sold-out 2018 Independent Institute event, Tucker Carlson discusses America's elites, a group whose power and wealth from government privilege have grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has floundered. The people who run America now barely interact with it, and in his #1 New York Times, best-selling book, Ship of Fools, Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by authoritarians who hide their hard-edged agenda behind identity politics. They’ll fleece you while lecturing you about bathrooms, plastic straws, and safe spaces.

“Left and right,” Carlson says, “are no longer meaningful categories in America. The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.” Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” At this event, and in his signature fearless and witty style, he addresses the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?

On January 12, 2023, family, friends, and associates gathered to celebrate and be inspired by the life of David J. Theroux, including tributes by Benjamin Powell and son Paul Theroux, an overview of David’s life by his wife Mary, and stirring messages from Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and George Gilder. The evening concluded with a look ahead to a future bright with opportunity.

The mission of the Independent Institute is to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies, grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity. From its start in 1986 as the first garage think tank, Independent has taken on the most important challenges of the day and proposed innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems. The resulting studies are published and widely distributed as books, articles in "The Independent Review," Policy Reports, Working Papers, and other publications. Events sponsored by Independent bring together scholars and policy experts to debate issues and discuss their implications.

In this 36th episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker discuss if it's easy to agree that Vladimir Putin’s war tactics are monstrous and malignant. But what happens in Ukraine if Putin is getting desperate after Ukraine sank his naval flagship with Western-supplied armaments? Is U.S. President Joe Biden displaying the kind of judicious statesmanlike leadership that the moment requires? On the home front, the culture war is heating up in Florida as Governor DeSantis challenges Disney and scrutinizes Florida’s public-school curriculum. Can we navigate the hot rhetoric to see if Florida’s policies threaten liberty, or protect it? And what is the future of mask mandates, now that a federal court has pulled the plug on the CDC’s authority to require masks? We will discuss all this and more on this week's upcoming episode of Independent Outlook.

Publications and Public Affairs Counsel Christopher Briggs is interviewed on American Medicine Today and talks about his family's ordeal with his daughter's cancer diagnosis and how Obamacare twice left her without coverage. Scarcity of coverage, not high prices, was the issue with his family, showing the dangers of a “single-payer” health system.

In this thirty-fifth episode of Independent Outlook, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker carefully examine the war in Ukraine, the folly of those pressuring for U.S. engagement, and how best to end this dangerous and horrific conflict; Elon Musk and the prospects for free speech at Twitter; the culture war and Disney's folly; media bias and cover-up with the Hunter Biden laptop; Woke Math; Critical Race and Gender Theory; and more.

Independent Institute Publications and Public Affairs Counsel Christopher Briggs talks about his family's ordeal, treating his young daughter's cancer under the Affordable Care Act. His family was twice denied coverage for her cancer under Obamacare. The answer, Briggs says, is to repeal the ACA and the restoration of actuarially sound insurance products curated to individual needs.