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March 29, 2025

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Senior Fellow Abigail Hall Blanco visits the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center and explains why Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs is well worth reading.

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** Ohio Senate Bill 1 Takes the Lead Against Woke Schools ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard Vedder praises the Trump administration’s attack on the status quo in higher education—and describes an equally important revolution occurring at the state and local level.
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** Four Women Who Hated Identity Politics ([link removed])
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As Women’s History Month comes to an end, Research Fellow Jonathan Bean praises four women who, contrary to the prevailing narrative of the women’s movement, reject the obsession with group identity and victim status.
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** Trump Should Listen to Milei on Protectionism and Growth ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell argues Trump should focus on deregulation, cutting government spending, and lowering taxes, as President Milei has.
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** The Problem with Trumponomics ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip Magness gives the real history of tariffs and explains why Trump is so wrong about them.


** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas praises Richard Vedder's application of "creative destruction" to universities in his new book, Let Colleges Fail. Read more » ([link removed])


** North State Journal ([link removed])
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Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., asks: should one unelected and uncountable official be permitted to obstruct policy prerogatives of the elected president of the United States? Read more » ([link removed])


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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip Magness reflects on how COVID lockdowns threatened liberty. Read more » ([link removed])


** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook explains what Attorney General Pam Bondi’s move to introduce a rule allowing her office to review gun possession petitions (that a federal agency has been blocked from considering since 1992) means. Read more » ([link removed])


** Minding the Campus ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard Vedder asks: can golf forestall Albright College’s creative destruction? Read more » ([link removed])


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The editors of ProCon cite Research Fellow Christopher Calton in a piece on Housing First policies. Read more » ([link removed])


** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley criticizes California’s politicians for forgetting people once streamed into California from far and wide … and not caring that most of the traffic is now on the way out. Read more » ([link removed])


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** Why Are Colleges Failing and What Can Be Done? ([link removed])
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Join us at the Independent Institute Conference Center

on Thursday, April 10, for a reception and discussion of Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s groundbreaking new book, Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot today!
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