Independent Conversations

This Lighthouse Briefing video features Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker and Independent Research Fellow Dr. Phillip W. Magness discussing Dr. Magness's article, "Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data," including the politicization of science, the folly of lockdowns and mask mandates, and the need for "Focus Protection" to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve "...

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine: What is the second Trump Impeachment trial distracting us from? This being Black History Month, how has Big Government been used to harm African Americans? How are Biden's Executive Orders rewarding interest groups that have supported him? What is the difference between classical liberalism and progressivism? Why are teachers unions fight...

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine: What is in store with President Joseph Biden signing a record number of Executive Orders instead of Congress acting? What is going on at America's southern border? Are California policies a model or an omen for the nation? And more.

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine: Should we be worried about policy reactions or overreactions after last Wednesday’s events at the Capitol; what’s going on with de-platforming, censorship, and Parler; now that the Biden Administration doesn’t have to worry about persuading a Republican-led Senate, what will their policy agenda be; what about vaccine distribution; and mor...

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine what is going on with election lawsuits; who else is Biden considering for an administration; the $2 billion in California unemployment insurance fraud; the passing of great, free-market economist, author and columnist Walter E. Williams; and more.

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine what is going on with voter fraud, lawsuits and recounts; what Biden-Harris policies and cabinet might we be expecting; who is canceling Thanksgiving and why, and more.

Graham Walker, Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., and Senior Fellow Michael C. Munger examine the following: Trump or Biden? Why are there election uncertainties? What about voter fraud, lawsuits and recounts? What happened to the "blue wave" that did not emerge? What are the economic implications of Biden-Harris policies?

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the Final Presidential Debate, Amy Coney Barrett having been confirmed as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. elections, voter fraud, Joe Biden family scandal, surveillance and Big Tech censorship, critical race theory, and more!

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the U.S. Senate's confirmation hearings for the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Columbus Day, COVID-19 pandemic, the Vice Presidential Debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, Court Packing, legal Originalism vs. the Living Constitution, World Health Organization, 1619 Project, and more!

Independent Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., joins with Williamson Evers and Graham Walker to examine President Trump’s nomination of U.S. Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Presidential Debates, the recent Breonna Taylor grand jury decision and riots, and more!

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine "Millenarian Mobs" and "utopian" street violence, leftist assassinations of police officers, government responsibility for the California wildfires, woke culture and football, Judeo-Christianty and civic virtue, Milton Friedman and corporate responsibility, and more!

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine ethnic studies, identify politics and tribalism, critical race theory, victimization, envy, civil rights, political corruption, individual liberty, personal responsibility, K-12 schools and school choice, racism and anti-Semitism, police unions and reform, the welfare state and poverty, looting, property rights, due process, the rule of la...

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the track record and political ambitions of Kamala Harris, political hypocrisy and correctness, due process, gun control, progressivism, free speech and freedom of the press, Presidential powers and Executive Orders, teacher and police unions, school shutdowns and re-openings, cancel culture, Jimmy Lai and the protests in Hong Kong, and mo...

In this episode, David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine free speech and technology, wokeness and cancel culture, protests and riots, police reform and the "Defund the Police" movement, COVID-19 and reopening schools, Chicago's crime wave, and more!