The Safe Harbor Legacy Society honors friends who choose to include Independent Institute in their legacy plans—helping ensure that the principles you value continue to shape a freer, more flourishing ...

This essay brings together the political, economic, and cultural aspects of fascism to explain Argentina’s economic decline. The explanation is not just corporatism, the welfare state, an unbalanced ...

In July, it was reported that rents in Los Angeles County had fallen to a four-year low. While rents remained high compared ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Two socialists walk into a bar. One, a socialist of the more nationalist vintage—a ...

This book review appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Bashing “neoliberalism” is the height of fashion today. Among the sins of neoliberalism is privatization, the (misguided) ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. The saying “If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a ...

If there were an Economist’s Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations ‘I understand comparative advantage’ and ‘I ...

Within hours of the tragic shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon on October 15th, the familiar political ...

Automated license plate readers (ALPR) are also tracking bumper stickers, everything from “Back the Blue” to “Jesus Saves” and “Black Lives Matter,” and ...

In September 2026, four active Indianapolis police officers and one former officer—Michael Rogers, Jonathan Schultz, Cassandra Crawley, Matthew Binford, ...

In its 2026 fiscal year that ended on September 30, the U.S. government collected $5.403 trillion in taxes but spent $7.396 ...

The first line of Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities resonates even today: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ...