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Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder speaks with Andrew Gillen, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, about his new book, Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education ([link removed]) .
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** How the Federal Reserve Fuels Fiscal Profligacy ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton warns that robbing Peter to pay Paul only leads to further government encroachment—and that taxpayers will ultimately pick up the tab.
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** Is Israel Really Making Itself Any Safer? ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Ivan Eland explains how Israel’s doctrine of proactive deterrence destabilizes its surroundings to the detriment of long-term security.
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** As Marines arrive in L.A., military experts raise concerns: ‘This could spiral out of control’ ([link removed])
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Journalists Jenny Jarvie and Grace Toohey quote Senior Fellow Abigail R. Hall on the concerning and potentially illegal arrival of Marines in LA.
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** Let Wildfire Burn Zones Rebuild the Right Way ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Kristian Fors argues it’s time for the state to liberalize single-family zoning and ease the housing crisis in California.
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** Republicans Like Health Savings Accounts ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow John Goodman, known as the “father of Health Savings Accounts,” explains why HSAs are a popular and important way many people pay for medical expenses—and a great way to save.
** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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** California Globe ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Kristian Fors explains how to fix California’s broken homeowners’ insurance market. Read more » ([link removed])
** Law & Liberty ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s new book is praised by writer Sam Negus, who calls for courage and innovation in higher education.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
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** Hayek Program ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Abigail R. Hall chats with Stefanie Haeffele, host of the Hayek Program, about her book, the modern militarized world, and how to bring academic work to a broader audience. Listen now » ([link removed])
** Inside Sources ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Ivan Eland argues Trump aims for authoritarianism and that Congress must grow a spine. Read more » ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook writes that in a unanimous SCOTUS decision, Mexico failed to prove Smith & Wesson was responsible for the unlawful sales of guns to Mexican drug cartels. Read more » ([link removed])
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** The Bob Murphy Show ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Kristian Fors appears on the Bob Murphy Show to discuss California's market for homeowners' insurance and housing policies. Watch now » ([link removed])
** Minding the Campus ([link removed])
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Writer Jared Gould argues Let Colleges Fail isn’t just a takedown—it’s Vedder’s call to yank the safety nets from failing schools, let them fold, and clear the way for sharper, smarter ones to rise. Read more » ([link removed])
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** The Price of Business ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness discusses the shocking difference in Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan’s economic views. Listen now » ([link removed])
** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley celebrates the result of Mexico’s gun case, praising SCOTUS’s shutdown of a replay of Obama’s “Fast and Furious” operation.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook explains why the National Firearms Act is a pure taxing measure and currently taxes silencers as firearms.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ([link removed])
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Writer George Leef praises Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s book on higher education.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** The Unseen and the Unsaid Substack ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Caleb Petitt argues that if America wants to be able to build up her fleet during wartime, the government should focus first on fiscal responsibility.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
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** America’s 1st Freedom ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook is interviewed on how the American Revolution had much to do with gun control.[link removed] now » ([link removed])
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Journalist Lewis Krauskopf predicts how early Fed chair nomination could rattle markets and reminisces on Senior Fellow Judy Shelton’s nomination.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley reveals the truth behind California’s deceptive new socialism.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook details the United States amicus brief in Barnett v. Raoul, the challenge to Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic rifles and standard magazines pending in the Seventh Circuit; this is the first time the Department of Justice has ever argued against such a ban.[link removed] more » ([link removed])
** FEATURED BOOK - AVAILABLE SOON!
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** The 1619 Project Myth ([link removed])
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** by Phillip W. Magness
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“There is no one better to pick apart the disastrous 1619 Project than Phil Magness. If every classroom that incorporated the 1619 Project into its curriculum replaced it with this book, the country would be better off.”
—Coleman Hughes, American writer, podcast host, and visiting professor at the University of Austin
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