Independent Institute

Programs: Sparking entrepreneurship & innovation: independent reverses government growth by spotlighting wrongdoing and offering practical, tech-forward solutions grounded in natural law. We generate solutions in business, housing, healthcare, entitlements, the environment, and global prosperity. Our california golden fleece awards, award-winning books, studies, spanish website, and multi-media campaigns share our solutions with civic leaders, the media, and the public. Our work has been introduced in national legislation, contributed to the elimination of the individual healthcare mandate, motivated reform in the california department of water resources and department of forestry and fire prevention, and has been signed into law in california.

defending civil liberties: independent reminds the public, media, and civic leaders about constitutional limits on government and the civil liberties those limits protect. Our principled, peer-reviewed research critically reviews policies and approaches to tort liability, criminal justice, constitutional law, property rights, civil liberties, foreign policy, and human morality to preserve and expand individual liberty. Our research and solutions are disseminated through award-winning books, studies, events, regional and national multi-media campaigns, and have inspired legislative testimony before a u. S. House committee, senate judiciary committee, and have been cited multiple times by the u. S. Supreme court.

educating the next generation: independent engages and inspires young people and parents with the principles of liberty, and empowers parents to select the best education for their children. Our satirical youtube series, love gov, applies free-marketing thinking to housing, employment, healthcare, education, and privacy, and has achieved well over 7. 4 million views primarily from millennials. This year, we launch love gov season two with a complementary website and social media portfolio. Our internships and youth-focused events offer hands-on learning, and our efforts to build awareness for school choice, affordable private school models, and higher education reforms are expanding educational opportunity for all.

disseminating ideas: change begins with ideas. Independent works to win the battle of ideas by communicating the highest quality, non-partisan, peer-reviewed research from established and emerging scholars. For over 22 years, independent has published quarterly issues of our journal, the independent review, which features symposia and essays addressing fundamental challenges and offers solutions based in entrepreneurship and community. These findings, along with all of independent's research, are shared through extensive publicity, multi-media campaigns, events, conferences, and online. By providing powerful research and free-market solutions, we attract and inspire civic leaders with the promise of prosperity only liberty affords.