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** What If Everything You Know about the 1619 Project Is Wrong?
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** Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 6:00 PM PDT | Oakland, CA
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In a no-holds-barred discussion, Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness will expose where the New York Times’ original 1619 Project went so wrong, the forgotten role free markets played in the abolition of slavery, and how history should—and shouldn’t—be studied.

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** How California’s Homeowners’ Insurance Market Collapsed – and How to Fix It
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** Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | 9am - 12pm PDT | Sacramento, CA
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In a timely and urgent conversation, Research Fellow Kristian Fors and other expert speakers will discuss the challenges facing California’s homeowners’ insurance market—what caused it, who’s paying the price, and how we can fix it.

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** Richard Vedder on Reviving Academic Freedom in America’s Colleges
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** Monday, June 16, 2025 | 4 - 5:15 PM EDT | Washington D.C.
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From declining enrollments and skyrocketing tuition to the stifling of intellectual diversity, Richard Vedder’s Let Colleges Fail ([link removed]) exposes how centralized control, administrative bloat, and ideological orthodoxy have corroded our college campuses. Don’t miss this urgent conversation between Cato research fellow Andrew Gillen and Richard K. Vedder about tackling the rot and dysfunction plaguing American higher education.

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** Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education
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** Wednesday, June 11, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT | Raleigh, NC
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In Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education ([link removed]) , Richard K. Vedder argues persuasively that the federal government needs to greatly reduce its role in higher education and allow American universities to be guided by the private sector. He offers practical solutions to the crises facing colleges and universities and provides a blueprint for restoring affordable, high-quality education.

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** Race, Liberty, and the Future of Meritocracy in America
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Research Fellow Jonathan Bean and contributors from the updated edition of Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader tackle controversial topics such as immigration, “systemic” racism, and the politics of intermarriage. They also explore how classical liberal values—championed by figures like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Louis Marshall—have long provided a blueprint for a thriving multi-ethnic society.
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** 2025 Scholars’ Summit
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** May 21-23, 2025 | Napa, CA
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Independent Institute hosted a two-day Scholars’ Summit in Napa, CA uniting research fellows and scholars to shape upcoming projects and strategize on key issues—intersection of fiscal and monetary policy, private solutions to public challenges, the 250th anniversary of American independence, surveillance, the American West, and defending free markets in an increasingly anti-market climate.

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