Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
8/26/2020	“Expand Dual Enrollment Programs for Pandemic-Challenged High School Students” Research Fellow Ronald Kimberling Op-Ed in The Hill
8/25/2020	“Why Isn’t Tuition Lower if Most College Classes Are Online? Good Question.” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America quote in Money
8/25/2020	“Five Books on Macroeconomics” The Midas Paradox by Research Fellow Scott Sumner cited in EconLib.org and USSA News
8/25/2020	“Crisis, Leviathan, and COVID” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Heartland.org
8/24/2020	“Should Racial Information Even Be Collected for College Admissions?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/24/2020	“Uber, Lyft granted stay in AB5 court case; ‘Argument the companies keep making is we are platforms, we are go-betweens’” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5 quoted in the Northern California Record
8/24/2020	“A Pandemic of Socialism” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in American Thinker
8/21/2020	“Precaution Can Kill—During a Pandemic and Beyond” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart and Research Fellow Pierre Lemieux Op-Ed in the National Newswatch
8/21/2020	“Happy Birthday to Libertarian Firebrand Walter Block” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
8/20/2020	“How Government Roads Expand Police Power in America” Research Fellow Tate Fegley Op-Ed on Mises.org
8/20/2020	“Ohio University’s Identity Crisis Shows the Struggles of Regional Public Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder quoted on NBCNews.com
8/20/2020	“CSU Students Will Be Required to Take Ethnic Studies Course to Graduate” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers quoted in The Epoch Times
8/20/2020	“Can we reclaim our freedom?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Alabama Todayand Yellow Hammer News
8/19/2020	“A Three-Item Post-Pandemic Regulatory Wishlist” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed on American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
8/19/2020	“Will Lyft and Uber Bolt California Over State’s Anti-Independent Contractor Law?” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5 quoted in Forbes
8/18/2020	“Yes, It Was “Real Socialism.” No, We Shouldn’t Try Again.” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
8/17/2020	“Chaos on Campus” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
8/16/2020	“California Ballot Contains Four Unconstitutional Propositions” Policy Fellow Ronald L. Trowbridge Op-Ed in The Hill
8/15/2020	“Feinstein’s Courtship of Communist China” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker
8/15/2020	“The Lesson about Society that Nobody Understands” Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action By Research Fellow Robert Murphy cited on The Tom Woods Show
8/14/2020	“Economic Freedom Hastens Pandemic Recovery” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
8/14/2020	“The season may go on for some, but COVID may change college football forever” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder quoted in The Charlotte Observer
8/14/2020	“America’s Surprising Recovery after V-J Day” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal
8/14/2020	“The Push for Rapid Testing” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless cited in National Review
8/13/2020	“Even as They Cancel Each Other, Progressives Continue to Downplay Their Movement’s Racist Past” Research Fellow Thomas Cargill, author of The Independent Review article Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner
8/12/2020	“How Government ‘Cures’ Drive out Real Cures” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Against Leviathan cited in American Institute for Economic Research, The Tennessee Star and other newspapers
8/12/2020	“Executive Orders—Past and Present” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency appears on Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM radio
8/12/2020	“Biden Picked Harris for Governing Skills Despite ‘Top Cop’ Record Infuriating Progressives” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland quoted on Urdupoint.com
8/11/2020	Crisis and Leviathan by Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs featured on Liberty Explained
8/11/2020	“How Not to Defend Elite Universities” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education
8/11/2020	“Retaliatory Tariffs Are a Second Pandemic Tax Increase” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited in Canada’s National Post and other affiliated newspapers
8/10/2020	“Want Income Equality? More for Vocational Ed, Less for Colleges” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes