Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
7/19/2020	“That Other Minneapolis Police Death” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in American Thinker
7/18/2020	“Better than Common Core: Florida’s K-12 Standards Raise the Bar” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Executive Director Graham Walker video featured on Education Views
7/17/2020	“The COVID Coup” Angelo Codevilla, Member of the Board of Advisors for The Independent Review Op-Ed in The American Mind
7/16/2020	“Contact Tracing Apps: Do People Trust Their Government?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in the Libertas Institute
7/15/2020	“WE Charity Affair Reveals Ottawa Has Fingers in Too Many Pies” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Epoch Times
7/15/2020	“U.S. Aircraft Carriers ‘Exercising’ in the South China Sea Could Spell Danger” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in The American Conservative
7/14/2020	Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America by Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder reviewed in Teachers College Record
7/13/2020	“Renewed Sanity on Campus? Yes to Free Speech, No to Football?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
7/13/2020	“Police Unions Protect Rogue Cops” Research Fellow Tate Fegley, author of Police Unions and Officer Privileges article in The Independent Review Op-Ed on Inside Sources
7/12/2020	“The United States of Socialism” Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell interviews author Dinesh D’Souza on Afterwords on C-SPAN2
7/10/2020	“California Legislators Violate Our Constitutional Rights” Policy Fellow Ronald L. Trowbridge Op-Ed in American Thinker
7/10/2020	“US Still Destabilizes Panama, Colombia Region 100 Years After Dedicating Canal” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland quoted on Urdupoint.com
7/10/2020	“So You Want to Be a Professor? Here Are Some Inconvenient Truths” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/9/2020	“Has the U.S. Government Finally Spent Too Much?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in Reason
7/8/2020	“Why should government mandate what we can do ourselves?” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Joplin Globe
7/7/2020	“UNC president-elect’s performance pay could set national example” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America cited in The Laurinburg Exchange
7/7/2020	“Government Should Not Force People to Wear Masks. We Should Do It Voluntarily” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited in The Federalist
7/7/2020	“Assembly Bill 5 Undercuts the Ability of Workers to Work” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers, director of Independent’s Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB5, Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group newspapers
7/7/2020	“Online Learning Hiccups Lead to Civil Liberty Threats” Sr. Fellow Williamson Evers and Research Associate Jonathan Hofer Op-Ed in The Hill
7/6/2020	“Florida’s Standards ‘Better than the Common Core,’ Institute Says” Independent Institute Briefing—Better than Common Core: Florida’s New K-12 Standards Raise the Bar cited in the Tampa Bay Times
7/6/2020	“The Seen and Unseen: Rajagopalan and Tabarrok” Sr. Fellow Alex Tabarrok and Shruti Rajagopalan co-author of The Independent Review article “Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State” cited in Marginal Revolution
7/5/2020	“Elite Imitation in Public Policy” Sr. Fellow Alex Tabarrok and Shruti Rajagopalan co-author of The Independent Review article “Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State” appear on The Seen and the Unseen podcast
7/5/2020	“Are American Universities Losing Their Lead in Scientific Research?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
7/3/2020	“Charters Close the Achievement Gap, Says Thomas Sowell” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/2/2020	“Harvard, Yale and Princeton Embarrass, but Cornell Shines” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
7/1/2020	“Rand Paul Is Right about Experts” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
7/1/2020	“What the Coronavirus Reveals about Emerging Countries” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in Inside Sources
7/1/2020	“Want to Kill the Economy Again? Keep Threatening More Lockdowns.” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs and The Independent Review cited on Mises.org and Eurasia Review
6/30/2020	“America Should Recapture Wisdom of Jefferson and Smith” Research Fellow Donald Boudreaux Op-Ed on Real Clear History
6/29/2020	“The Complicated Ethics of Price Gouging” Matt Zwolinski, contributor to The Independent Review Op-Ed in The Epoch Times
6/29/2020	“Short-Term Insurance Is Not the Problem. It’s the Solution” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless Op-Ed in Forbes
6/29/2020	“Will More Unemployment Increase Fall College Enrollments?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes