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May 17, 2025

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Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder joins the PBS News Hour to discuss why Ohio's SB1 has forced public universities to abandon DEI programs—and why that’s a good thing.

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** California Golden Fleece® Award 2025 Goes to California’s Insurance Disaster ([link removed])
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Journalist Katy Grimes praises Research Fellow Kristian Fors’ latest Golden Fleece report, which details the failure of California’s homeowners’ insurance market.
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** Government Versus Your Health ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow John Goodman praises a new book by Dr. Jeffrey Singer titled Your Body, Your Health Care, and emphasizes how government potentially interferes with just about every health care decision we make.
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** Why California’s NFL Draftees and Residents Must Play Defense ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley explains how even with the nation’s strictest gun laws, California still fails to punish many of those who commit serious crimes.


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** The David Lin Show ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip Magness asks: will 2025 repeat the great depression? Watch now » ([link removed])


** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook argues the US Supreme Court must decide once and for all that a magazine is part of gun and should have Second Amendment protections. [link removed]

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** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley does a deep dive on Mark Carney’s intellectual mentor, a “celebrity” economist who valued power over freedom. Read more » ([link removed])


** Freedom Conservatism ([link removed])
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Independent Institute contributor Ethan Yang is featured for arguing the U.S. Department of Justice is committing a grave error by trying to break up Google by judicial fiat.

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** Los Angeles Times ([link removed])
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Journalist Howard Blume cites the Independent Institute’s Comparative Cultures Curriculum in a piece about California’s ethnic studies mandate. Read more » ([link removed])


** FEATURED BOOK
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** Let Colleges Fail ([link removed])
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** The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education ([link removed])
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** by Richard K. Vedder
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Everyone knows American universities are more expensive and less impressive than ever. But no one has come up with a plan to fix them … until now. Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education is the hard-hitting instruction manual America needs in order to save its institutions of higher learning.
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