Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
3/5/2025	“Can a New National Nanny Make America Healthy Again?” Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II Op-Ed in Inside Sources
3/5/2025	“Small businesses, farmers, consumers, Wall Street fear Trump tariffs, trade wars” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted on KULR8.com (Billings, MT)
3/5/2025	“Jay Bhattacharya Was Right, and Francis Collins Wrong” Research Fellow David R. Henderson and Charles Hooper Op-Ed in Real Clear Markets
3/5/2025	“The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
3/4/2025	“End the DC Hold ‘em Game” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
3/4/2025	“Trump Plans to Shake Up Higher Education” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail quoted in The Wall Street Journal
3/3/2025	“Protectionists and Trustbusters: America’s Economic Growth & the Power of Independent Thinking” Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II Op-Ed in Real Clear History
3/3/2025	“Locking Down American Liberty” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness Op-Ed in Law & Liberty
3/3/2025	“Time to Topple the Fourteenth Amendment” Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., author of Crossroads for Liberty Op-Ed in Chronicles Magazine
3/3/2025	“How some Canadians are preparing for the looming trade war” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted on CTVNews.ca (Canada) and BNN Bloomberg
3/3/2025	“Trump Is Well-Positioned to Shake Up the World Balance of Power” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in Inside Sources
3/3/2025	“America Still Needs a Covid Reckoning” Senior Advisor Scott Atlas Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal
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