Institute for Humane Studies ✓

@TheIHS · Arlington, VA · joined 03 Nov 2008

We are building and equipping a network of 10,000+ scholars and leaders to turn the ideas of freedom into outcomes in classrooms, policy, and culture.

16 251Followers

1 293Following

11 420Posts total

2.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS14 Sep

@TheIHS An IHS summer seminar was invaluable to my intellectual journey. Despite studying economics at @UChicago while in the Committee on Social Thought for four years, it was only through IHS that I discovered Austrian economics and ancap. It was shocking to me that I had att 57 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS14 Sep

A postcard for an IHS summer seminar landed in John Tomasi's mailbox and he spent the $500 he saved to go. There he clashed with one of the speakers but managed to still turn his argument into an essay that became his first publication. Now he leads the Heterodox Academy. Read 516 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS9 Sep

Justin Gest's new book, "Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy," argues that immigrants leave authoritarian countries because they already believe in democracy, not because they want to import its opposite. IHS supported the research and writing behind

216 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS8 Sep

In 1989, while helping with construction of a municipal pool in East Germany, Mitch Mitchell noticed how authority without accountability can lead to misplaced restrictions. Read about how his experiences informed Mitchell’s research and work in higher education. 367 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS28 Aug

CivicsMind is a free AI tutor that answers only from founding documents, the Federalist Papers, and Supreme Court rulings, and cites its sources every time. Read more: https://t.co/I237pEowrS 571 views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Institute for Humane Studies ✓@TheIHS27 Aug

Housing, healthcare, transportation, and energy now claim two-thirds of the average household budget. At the @StatePolicy Annual Meeting today, Alicia Plemmons of the Knee Regulatory Research Center, Yang Zhou of the University of North Texas, and IHS's Shane Courtland and Reed h

412 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views390this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.40%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.36%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	390	924	0.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.40%	3.62%	0.66×
Engagement rate	1.36%	1.52%	0.89×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

41227 Aug

57128 Aug

3678 Sep

2169 Sep

51614 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.97%27 Aug

2.28%28 Aug

0.00%8 Sep

0.00%9 Sep

1.74%14 Sep

1.75%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes72.4%21 in total

Reposts13.8%4 in total

Replies6.9%2 in total

Bookmarks6.9%2 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.