From Independent Institute <[email protected]>
Subject Why Do Failed Ideas Keep Coming Back?
Date September 27, 2025 4:00 PM
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September 27, 2025

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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness Phil Magness appears on the Lithuanian Free Market Institute podcast and asks: if Marxist economics failed over a century ago, why is socialism making a comeback?

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** Phillip Magness, "The 1619 Project Myth" on C-SPAN’s BookTV ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness will be on C-SPAN’s BookTV at 5:01 AM PDT this Sunday to discuss his new book, The 1619 Project Myth ([link removed]) . Mark your calendars!
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** The Fed Should Do One Thing—and One Thing Only ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Alexander William Salter argues the Fed should keep their mandate simple: stabilize the dollar.
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** Higher Education’s Triple Crisis: Finances, Integrity, Leadership ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder warns that unless and until problems in all three dimensions are addressed, America’s universities will remain in trouble.
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** Understanding and Saving Gen Z to Save America ([link removed])
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Senior Advisor Scott W. Atlas urges Gen Z to take a break from screens and develop critical thinking and debate skills—skills that Charlie Kirk modeled so well.


** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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Research Associate Caleb Petitt writes in praise of the plasma-donation system. Read more » ([link removed])


** Mises Institute ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow David T. Beito warns presidents have a long history of using the FCC to silence critics. Read more » ([link removed])


** AOL ([link removed])
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Journalist Zach Weissmueller cites Retired Senior Fellow Robert Higgs in a piece on the surveillance state. Read more » ([link removed])


** The Stream ([link removed])
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Writer Jim Tonkowich quotes Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder in a piece explaining why today’s college students are so glum. Read more » ([link removed])


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** A Balance of Titans ([link removed])
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** Peace and Liberty in the New Multipolar World ([link removed])
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** By Ivan Eland
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“Ivan Eland proposes a bold new foreign policy for the United States, one that would encourage other nations to share the burdens of policing the world, saving the United States billions in defense spending and making peace more likely and sustainable.”
—Harvey Sapolsky, professor emeritus of public policy and organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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