Independent Conversations

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker carefully examine the war in Ukraine, the folly of those pressuring for U.S. engagement, and how best to end this dangerous and horrific conflict; Elon Musk and the prospects for free speech at Twitter; the culture war and Disney's folly; media bias and cover-up with the Hunter Biden laptop; Woke Math; Critical Race and Gender Theory; and more.

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine Biden; sky-rocketing inflation that is crushing American consumers; democracy, sanctions, energy, censorship, and the dangers of and the staunch resistance to Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine; the folly of the World Economic Forum's New World Order ("Great Reset"); the Constitution and nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court; Woke Math; Critical Race and Gender Theory; the grassroots rebellion against woke-culture elites; and more.

In this timely and insightful Independent Conversation, bestselling author, feminist and human rights activist Dr. Naomi Wolf is interviewed by Dr. Graham H. Walker (Executive Director, Independent Institute) to discuss how truth, science, ethics and constitutional rights have all been trampled in the elite media stampede and government mandates of the COVID-19 pandemic. As new revelations appear almost daily on the lies and corruption of the COVID crisis, what has happened to informed dissent in America? Have women in particular become voiceless subjects of pharmaceutical power? Are concerns about COVID tyranny overblown, or should we be worried? Is there a disturbing spiritual dimension to the individual and institutional failures we are witnessing around us? And, what can and should be done now?

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine Biden, NATO, and the U.S. in the midst of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine; the impact of the Freedom Convoy in Canada and now the People's Convoy in the U.S.; school board recalls and the rebellion against woke schooling; John Durham's indictment of Hillary Clinton's corruption; honoring the late P.J. O'Rourke; and more.

Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., joins with Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker to examine the complex issues surrounding the military tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, especially President Biden's recent steps to threaten both economic sanctions and military action in response to Russian activity in the region. We also look at what the Beijing Olympics are revealing about the Chinese Communist regime, which is using the Covid crisis to implement massive and detailed social controls that are not being scaled back as the health crisis recedes—and probably never will be. We further consider the increasingly coercive atmosphere in American academe, illustrated by Georgetown University's punishment of Ilya Shapiro for expressing disagreement with the Affirmative Action policy behind President Biden's SCOTUS nomination plan. And of course, there is much more!

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine SCOTUS Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer's resignation and identity politics in Biden's nominee candidates; Biden's war drums over the Ukraine, NATO and Russia; Bidenflation, Income Inequality and the Federal Reserve; surging crime, policing and gun control; Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, ethnic studies, woke math and the failure of public schools; and more.

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine the rapid spread, new revelations and foolish politics of the very mild Omicron variant of COVID-19; new SCOTUS challenge to Biden's vaccine mandates; defeat of Biden's mega-trillion dollar "Build Back Better" boondoggle; teachers unions and more unwarranted and harmful school lockdowns; folly and falsehoods of the "1619 Project" and Critical Race Theory; attacks on protesting parents as "domestic terrorists"; Bidenflation; voting rights; new developments in the Ukraine and Brazil; and more.

In this far-reaching and compelling Independent Conversation, U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions interviews the innovative economist and author Dr. John C. Goodman (Senior Fellow, Independent Institute; President, Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research), in a conversation hosted by Dr. Graham H. Walker (Executive Director, Independent Institute). They discuss Dr. Goodman's widely acclaimed book, "New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First," on the need to create a market-based social safety net for all Americans.

In this far-reaching and compelling Independent Conversation, bestselling author, classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson is interviewed by Dr. Graham H. Walker (Executive Director, Independent Institute) to discuss Dr. Hanson's recent book, "The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America."

David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker debunk anti-Thanksgiving myths and examine the absurd politics of the Omicron variant of COVID-19; Biden's mandates and economic folly; oil, energy and climate issues; inflation as a regressive tax; comparative criminal justice and bail in Kenosha and Waukesha, WI, the Asbury murder case in GA, and the Jussie Smollet racialist hoax case in Chicago; organized retail crime, "smash and grab," and shop-lifting; midterm elections with Tracey Abrams in GA and Dr. Mehmet Oz in PA; the 2022 Winter Beijing Olympics and missing Chinese tennis superstar Peng Shuai; and more.