Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
8/20/2018	“A Good Idea: More Job Earnings Data on the College Scorecard” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/18/2018	“Skeptical of the ‘Common Good’? Don’t Be!” Research Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Pope Francis and the Caring Society cited on Reason.com
8/16/2018	“The Moratorium on Soda Taxes Puts California on the Right Track” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II and Josh T. Smith Op-Ed in The Orange County Register
8/16/2018	“How to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch” Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan appears on the Mike Schikman radio show on WSVA (VA)
8/15/2018	Research Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Pope Francis and the Caring Society interviewed on C-SPAN’s Book TV
8/15/2018	“Breastfeeding Controversy Shows Need for Private Efforts—Not Government Campaigns” Research Fellow Raymond March Op-Ed in The Hill
8/14/2018	“Why the Pre-Existing Conditions Argument Is Killing Republican Candidates” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
8/14/2018	“California Criminal Guide: Tips for Thugs” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Daily Caller
8/13/2018	“Weak Public Support for Universities Will Hurt Them Financially” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/11/2018	Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children interviewed on C-SPAN’s Book TV
8/10/2018	“Emmett Till, A New Investigation, and Vindication of T.R.M. Howard” Research Fellows David Beito and Linda Royster Beito, authors of T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer Op-Ed on Real Clear History
8/10/2018	“Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization: Even if the Democrats Lose, They Win?” Research Fellow Wendy McElroy Op-Ed in The Hill
8/9/2018	“Sanctions on Iran Won’t Do What Trump Wants Them to Do” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland Op-Ed in Real Clear World
8/9/2018	“A Carbon Tax: A Useless Solution to a Nonexistent Problem” Research Fellow Fred Singer Op-Ed in American Thinker
8/9/2018	“Do crises produce liberalization or more statism?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in the Cayman Compass
8/8/2018	“Eliminate the US Department of Education” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure appears on KPRL radio’s Sound Off
8/8/2018	“Replacements for plastic straws have their own problems” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II and Policy Fellow Brian Isom Op-Ed in The Sacramento Bee and other Tribune News Service newspapers
8/6/2018	“How to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch” Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan and Policy Researcher George Tibbitts Op-Ed in The San Francisco Chronicle
8/6/2018	“College Financial Viability: The View of Campus CFOs” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/6/2018	“Trump Throws a Life Belt to People Who Buy Their Own Health Insurance” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless in Forbes
8/6/2018	“A Libertarian Case for the Common Good” Research Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Pope Francis and the Caring Society cited in America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture
8/3/2018	“Book The Know-It-Alls tells how PayPal’s Peter Thiel rode a wave of disruption” The Diversity Myth cited in The Australian Financial Review
8/2/2018	“The Cost of Neglecting Our History” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/2/2018	“Polystyrene Bans Are Indefensible. Another example of trendiness based on utter ignorance.” Independent Institute briefing Plastic Pollution: Bans vs. Recycling Solutions cited in American Spectator
8/2/2018	“France, the Nazis, and Gun Control” Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook is reviewed in American Thinker
7/31/2018	“Truth and Memory in the Mississippi Delta: What the Emmett Till Case Means Today” Research Fellows David Beito and Linda Royster Beito, authors of T.R.M. Howard cited on National Endowment for the Humanities
7/30/2018	“Race and College Admissions: Harvard and Chicago” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Higher Education’s Triple Crisis: Too Costly, Too Little Learning, Too Few Good Jobs Op-Ed in Forbes
7/30/2018	“How Do You Grow Steel in South Dakota?” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/27/2018	“Gun Violence: Have efforts to control firearms reached a turning point?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Founders’ Second Amendment quoted in CQ Researcher (Subscription required)
7/27/2018	Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan, author of California Dreaming interviewed on America’s Voice television at Freedom Fest 2018
7/27/2018	Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure interviewed on America’s Voice television at Freedom Fest 2018
7/27/2018	“Robert Higgs on Trump’s delusion of a win-win trade war” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited on American Enterprise Institute