Dominant media push skewed narratives on racial issues such as crime rates, police use of force, incarceration rates, and educational achievement gaps. Is it wrong for the corporate media to exclusively blame white racism for all racial problems? Dr. Atlas interviews Kentucky State University professor Wilfred Reilly, a leading diagnostician of popular racialist thinking. WATCH NOW »

Williamson M. Evers (Real Clear Education)

Should math class teach math or “social justice”? Unfortunately, California education bureaucrats are confused on this point, and the state’s 5.8 million public schoolchildren are at risk of innumeracy as a result. Both the Los Angeles Times and Fox News just spotlighted this article by Williamson Evers, as the battle over math education heats up. READ MORE »

Christopher J. Calton (Mises.org)

Inflation or illusion? Learn why the consumer price index that politicians and media outlets trot out is a questionable measurement…and what’s really going on behind price rises. READ MORE »

Samuel R. Staley (The Beacon)

With his biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb” turned skeptic of nuclear weapons, Christopher Nolan continues to establish himself as an astute and adroit filmmaker. He doesn’t hide Oppenheimer’s leftist political sympathies, or the role of plain old cut-throat politics in the development of unimaginable weaponry. READ MORE »

David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy.  Independent welcomes nominations and applications for the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy, named in honor of the late founder of Independent. The holder of the chair ensures that all research activities have intrinsic intellectual merit in the service of Independent’s mission. READ MORE »

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