Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
2/28/2025	“Why Do Colleges Make People Unhappy?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in The James Martin Center for Academic Renewal
2/28/2025	“We’re at a Monetary Crossroads, It’s Time to Audit the Fed, and Demand Sound Money” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold interviewed on The Julia La Roche Show
2/28/2025	“One Problem with Colleges? They Can Make Students Unhappy” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail cited in National Review
2/27/2025	“Republicans want to eliminate DEI offices on campus. What do they do?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder quoted in The Columbus Dispatch
2/26/2025	“‘Mr. Mellon Is Turning in His Grave’: The Mellon Foundation Is Reinterpreting American History and Monuments” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
2/26/2025	“Supreme Court Should Hold Its Decision in VanDerStok” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms Op-Ed in Reason
2/25/2025	“DOGE’s Dollars to the People” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/24/2025	“A Very Short History of American Universities, 1636-2025” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
2/24/2025	“The Real Reason the Rich Get Richer & Everyone Else Poorer” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold interviewed on Liberty and Finance
2/24/2025	“President Trump’s High-Risk Tariff Gamble” Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in The Washington Times
2/22/2025	“Why California’s Plan to Harden Homes against Wildfires Is Broken” Research Fellow Kristian Fors Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
2/21/2025	“Will the Fed Be Abolished Under Trump? What A Full Audit Could Reveal” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold interviewed on the David Lin show
2/21/2025	“Congress is (unfortunately) key to DOGE’s success” Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr, author of Crossroads for Liberty Op-Ed in the North State Journal
2/21/2025	“The goal is to make Ohio universities so bad no student would want to attend them” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail mentioned in The Columbus Dispatch
2/20/2025	“Adam Smith Is a Better Economist than Donald Trump” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/19/2025	“California’s Elaine Howle—DOGE Before DOGE Was Cool” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/18/2025	“DOGE hasn’t been the success supporters initially believed” Senior Fellow Steve Hanke quoted in The Spectator
2/18/2025	“Phil Magness explains some of the many problems with Trump’s protectionist ‘policies.’” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness cited on Cafe Hayek
2/17/2025	“I’m an Economist: 2 Ways I Believe Trump’s Tariffs Could Hit Your Finances Hard in 2025” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted on GOBankingRates.com
2/17/2025	“5th Circuit holds suppressors not to be protected ‘arms’” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms Op-Ed in Reason
2/15/2025	“Donald Trump’s Tariffs: Bad Economics and Maybe Illegal, Too” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in The National Interest
2/15/2025	“Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs punish Americans and Canadians alike” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted in the National Post
2/14/2025	“Is California turning the tide on transgenderism?” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker
2/14/2025	“Europe Has Moved Away from the Freedom It Partly Invented” Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in Real Clear Markets
2/14/2025	“Smoot-Hawley Redux” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness interviewed on History as it Happens Podcast
2/14/2025	“DEBATE: Will Trump’s Tariffs HURT America?” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness appears on the BetterWealth show
2/14/2025	“A 250th Anniversary Gift for Uncle Sam” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold Op-Ed in The New York Sun (Subscription required )
2/14/2025	“Anthony Fauci Museum Exhibit Cancelled” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/13/2025	“Setting Straight the Falsification of History” Independent Institute Research Fellow Jonathan Bean, editor of Race & Liberty in America, is interviewed on the Liberty Watch Radio Show.
2/13/2025	“Universities Are Profiting Off Federal Research Grants at Taxpayers’ Expense—Trump Reforms Could Curb the Abuse” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
2/12/2025	“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leads to harassment on campus. SB1 must pass.” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in The Columbus Dispatch
2/12/2025	“DEI in the Ashes: Special Envoy Ric Grennel and EPA Head Lee Zeldin Visit LA” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator