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Published Papers

These papers, written by Independent Institute Research Fellows, were originally published in other publications, and are republished here. For other research, please see our Policy Briefings, Working Papers, and The Independent Review.

Why Models Run Hot
Results from an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model
Common Core’s Validation
A Weak Foundation for a Crooked House
The Secular Religions of Progress
The Promise and Sensibility of Integrative Dualism
Climate Consensus and “Misinformation”
A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change
The Economics Behind the U.S. Government’s Unwinnable War on Drugs
Mere Friendship
C.S. Lewis on a Great Joy
Why Can’t We Be Like France?
How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration Was Decreed Just in Time for the Nazi Occupation
The Healthcare Contract with America
Gold and Government
Secular Theocracy
The Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny
No Right to “Bear Arms”? A Critical Analysis of United States v. Masciandaro
Rethinking Church and State
The Case of Environmental Religion
Lack of Consistency Between Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends
Foreword to The Civilian and the Military, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
The Economics of the Great Society
Theory, Policies, and Consequences
Aim at the Zero Deficit Line
The IMF and Its Barbarous Relic
C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?
Cumulating Policy Consequences, Frightened Overreactions, and the Current Surge of Government’s Size, Scope, and Power
Principled Independence
The Bulgarian Economic Growth and Transition Project
Who Needs One Big Market?


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