America benefits from its polycentricity — its multiple sources of competing power and influence, rather than just one seat of power at the center.

Darwyyn Deyo, IHS scholar and research fellow at the Knee Center, is making a substantial impact in healthcare policy via her research.

His research was rigorous, and he was one of the few economists who know how to engage with the public.

On this day in 1899, in Vienna, Friedrich Hayek was born. He would go on to write about economics, philosophy, politics, psychology, and the history of ideas, and win the Nobel Prize in Economics....

Robert Poole’s new book, Rethinking America’s Highways, persuasively makes the case for a New Vision for U.S. Highways that includes variable‐​priced tolling to end traffic congestion and public‐​p...

An overwhelming majority—95 percent—of Americans are confused about the state of global poverty.

Over thirty years later and Boettke is a testament to the power of paying it forward, something he applies in his teaching style still.

As we debate police reform, many experts think "community-based" policing was a well-intentioned failure. But what if that’s because it was never really trie...

Penning a comment piece for the day of an election is a difficult task. You have to speculate, tread the political waters carefully, and perhaps dare to make a prediction before people head to the...

An important new book explains how public ignorance enables to powerful interest groups to use government regulation to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of society. Such regulatory...

Since the 1920s—and especially after World War II—the regulation and medicalization of childbirth has steered mothers away from midwives to physicians in ho...

Professor Christopher Coyne argues that it’s important for classical liberals to make the case for peace, to be “peacemongers.” He says that as a society we ...

Deirdre McCloskey’s trilogy (Bourgeois Virtues; Bourgeois Dignity; Bourgeois Equality) incessantly reminds us of the exceptionality of economic growth. The three books comprise one intellectual...

President of the Institute for Humane Studies, Emily Chamlee-Wright, is joined by Nadine Strossen, Jonathan Rauch, John Hasnas, and Todd Zywicki, for a panel...

His definition attempts to minimize harm while maximizing freedom.

"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social...

Check out other upcoming events here:https://www.theihs.org/academic-programs/discuss-and-collaborate/In recent decades, both the right and the left have pus...

“Ideal theory” political philosophy, like that of Rawls, glosses over the core problems with social democracy and other forms of statism.