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.

With commercial banks exposed by the recent bailouts, Americans question whether “their money” is truly safe despite the promises of FDIC insurance. Jeff Deist and Independent Institute Research Fellow Robert Murphy walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.

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It’s back to school for teacher Rose and her son Archie, but with Scott "Gov" Govinsky at the helm of the post-pandemic education system, it's a new (anything-but) normal. Episodes 3, 4 & 5 coming soon!

Overheated rhetoric has politicized and misinformed the public about the earth’s climate. S. Fred Singer’s classic 1997 book on global warming—and antidote to alarmism—Hot Talk, Cold Science has been updated and expanded, incorporating numerous recent scientific findings, making this fascinating and complex subject accessible to general readers.

Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)

Surveys claim that younger Americans favor socialism far more than preceding generations. What accounts for this fatal attraction and how can we reverse it? What role does social media—which young people remain glued to—have in this apparent leftward trend? On the other hand, what potential does social media have for generating greater appreciation for liberty and enterprise? In this compelling Lighthouse Briefing, Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker addresses these questions and more with Chloe Anagnos and Jonathan Hofer—two young, Independent Institute staffers who are careful observers of their own generation (“Millennial” and “Gen Z”).

Erich J. Prince (Editor, Merion West) interviews Mary L.G. Theroux (Senior Vice President, Independent Institute) to discuss the Capitol protest and riot; the new attacks on civil liberties; COVID-19 pandemic restrictions; 4th Amendment concerns; Big Tech and Big Media; and the expanding surveillance state. They also examine everything from one-party rule in the U.S. to de-platforming/censorship to "progressive" propaganda in K-12 public schools, as well as general media and political developments on 1st Amendment concerns, group think, mob wokeness and political correctness.

Independent institute Senior Vice President Mary L.G. Theroux interviews political humorist and bestselling author P. J. O’Rourke on his book, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land.