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What Conservative Americans Are Actually Saying About Democracy | Institute for Humane Studies

Deliberative Democracy And The Effects Of Deliberation | Institute for Humane Studies

Graduate Conference for the Social Sciences | Institute for Humane Studies

Nuclear Energy And The Challenge Of A Growing Grid | Institute for Humane Studies

Classical Liberal Mind

Digital Governance As Liberal Experimentation | Institute for Humane Studies

IEEPA and the Limits of Executive Authority | Institute for Humane Studies

Cuba needs a long-term solution to its energy crisis

Dark patterns on the web are designed to manipulate you – why aren’t they all illegal?

Annual Report 2025 | Institute for Humane Studies

Free Society Grants | Institute for Humane Studies

Liberalism and the Future of Higher Education | Emily Chamlee-Wright & John Tomasi

IHS Opens Research Funding on Cost of Living, Digital Governance, and Nuclear Energy | Institute for Humane Studies

The System Has to Become Worthy of Trust | Institute for Humane Studies

Trump sidelined Congress’ authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend

Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds

New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere

Free Society Grants | Institute for Humane Studies

Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

ICE Isn’t a Quick Fix for Airport Chaos

Liberalism.org Podcasts

Today, IHS Is Beginning a New Chapter

An Efficient Government Is A Limited Government

Ripple by The Washington Post

The Soviet-Born Scholar Who Took on Trump’s Tariffs - The IHS

Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options

Reversing the Great Forgetting: Cultural Economy as a way of seeing the liberal order

IHS Launches Initiative to Strengthen the Foundations of Self-Government - The IHS

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy

AI Will Create Work, Not Decimate It

Laura K. Field on "Furious Minds"

Requests for Proposals - The IHS

A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high | Colorado Newsline

Federal funding cuts are only one problem facing America’s colleges and universities

Individual Freedom Is Central to the Classical Liberal Tradition - The IHS

Requests for Proposals: Freedom and the Challenge of Change - The IHS

Why protecting Colorado children from dying of domestic violence is such a hard problem

Farmers – long Trump backers – bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies

"Furious Minds" with Laura Field

Donate - The IHS

From Hair Braiding to Health Care: Alicia Plemmons and Arbitrary Licensing Rules - The IHS

Breaking the Politics Spectrum: Verlan Lewis on Freedom, Pluralism, and Narrative - The IHS

Hybrid workers are putting in 90 fewer minutes of work on Fridays – and an overall shift toward custom schedules could be undercutting collaboration

Jean Vilbert: The Young Judge Who Chose Dignity Over Security - The IHS

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party

Accelerating Scholarship: From Philosophy to Practice with AI

The Liberal Vision for Foreign Policy: Peaceful Solutions - The IHS

Answers Across the Street: How Daniel J. Smith Found and Fought for Freedom - The IHS

Request for Proposals on the Blueprints for Abundance - The IHS

Liberalism As Mob Boss - by Alexandre Lefebvre - Persuasion

Graduate Conference

Why can’t every country get along with each other? It comes down to resources, inequality and perception

William Galston on the Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech - The IHS

How Lauren Hall Became a Voice for Radical Moderation - The IHS

Intellectual Humility, the Knowledge Problem, and the Fatal Conceit - The IHS

A Jolt of Freedom: Paula Ganga’s Discovery of Ideas as Living Things - The IHS

AI Accelerated Scholarship - Apply Here

More young adults are living with their parents than previous generations did

Michael Tolhurst in Liberal Currents: A Popular Front of Memory - The IHS

The Dark Passions of Politics HH Discussion

America’s 250th Anniversary Grant for Undergraduate Programming - The IHS

Justice: Freedom in Practice - The IHS

The Soviet-Born Scholar Who Took on Trump’s Tariffs - The IHS

IHS Receives $1.5M to Rebuild the Intellectual Infrastructure of Freedom - The IHS

Rules Matter More Than Rulers

Freedom of Expression: The Safeguard of Liberty and Discovery

The Woke Right Stands At the Door

Webinar: Shoring Up Dollar Dominance with Cryptocurrency

ScholarsEdge

Society Needs Philanthropic Privacy

Rule of Law

Summit on Trust and Democracy: Cross-Ideological Work Toward a Flourishing Democracy

Higher Ed Must Recommit to Its Enlightenment Roots (opinion)

Civil Society: The Engine of Effective Problem-Solving

Our Gutenberg Moment

Tracking the Ripple Effect: How IHS Is Using Open Syllabus to Help Spread the Ideas of Freedom

Veeshan Rayamajhee: Breaking Down Barriers to Resilience and Immigrant Empowerment

Understanding Political Polarization: New Research Sheds Light on Its Causes and Consequences

Spontaneous Order: A Testament to Human Creativity and Adaptability

Trump’s Policy of Shipping Innocents to the Salvadoran Gulag Shows Utter Contempt for Not Just the Constitution but Law Itself

These Tariffs Are a Democratic Crisis, Not Just an Economic One

Shaping the Future of AI with Humanity at the Center

Voluntary Action Drives Mutual Benefit and Societal Progress

What Erratic Government Does to a Country

The Power of Economic Freedom

Human Dignity: The Cornerstone of Classical Liberalism

Justice Reimagined: A Graduate Workshop Series - Online

Crucial Conversation: Bridging the Partisan Divide

Crucial Conversation: Promise and Perils of AI

Chevron to Loper: Limiting Federal Overreach

Crucial Conversation: Free Speech Threats and Opportunities

Crucial Conversation: Inspiring Students with the Ideas of Freedom

Crucial Conversation: Democracy and Solidarity

Academic Mentorship for Graduate Students

Crucial Conversation: Healthcare Regulatory Reform

Why Moderation?

An Examination of the Gold, Fiat, and Bitcoin Standards

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The Four Corners of Liberalism with Peter Boettke & Emily Chamlee-Wright, Pt. 1

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5 Steps to a Successful Dissertation

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