Independent Institute ✓

@IndependentInst · Oakland, CA · joined 17 Feb 2009

Public policy research and education boldly advancing peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst19 Sep

Popular sovereignty (i.e., the people holding ultimate authority) is a core principle of republican government. As ultimate sovereigns, the people have the power to erect a government, alter it, and abolish it. Officers of government exercise delegated powers—they are the https

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst18 Sep

Should economics explain society or attempt to engineer it? Robert Higgs argues that economics is most valuable when it helps us understand human behavior, incentives, and institutions rather than prescribe centralized solutions. This is just one of the thought-provoking ideas

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst18 Sep

“There's a great deal of money being poured into homelessness by the federal, state, and local governments. It's billions and billions of dollars a year. And… as our dear friend Harry Brown used to say, ‘When you strew the streets with raw meat, packs of wild dogs come.’ You htt

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst18 Sep

🎥 Building Home is out now. With over 140,000 views and an official selection at the 2026 Awareness Film Festival, Building Home follows one man's path from addiction and the streets to a life rebuilt — and what it took to get there. https://t.co/TradArfD1o

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst9 Aug

The technology made big promises. Does the evidence support them? Acoustic gunshot detection has been promoted as a breakthrough for public safety. But after years of implementation, independent research has raised important questions about whether it delivers the outcomes https 607 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst7 Aug

A culture fixated on the present is fueling America’s decline. | Richard K. Vedder https://t.co/A1YdTqoXLl 539 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst7 Aug

Nearly a century after the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act helped deepen the Great Depression, one of its long-dormant provisions has been revived to justify new tariffs. Critics argue the move sidesteps Congress's constitutional authority over tariffs, relies on obsolete law, and risks 444 views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst7 Aug

The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism is now available as a free, open-access resource. In his chapter on education, Senior Fellow Williamson Evers explores how greater educational freedom can foster stronger communities, meaningful choice, and opportunities for human ht 416 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst6 Aug

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Independent Institute ✓@IndependentInst3 Aug

Why do the same ideas keep coming back? History of the Future connects history, economics, and today's biggest headlines to better understand what's next. Coming Wednesday! https://t.co/UmlIEW3cV2

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Em comparação com contas do mesmo porte

10 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 10K–100K seguidores. abaixo dos pares tanto em alcance quanto em engajamento.

Mediana de visualizações430esta conta924mediana para 10K–100K

Alcance, %1.27%esta conta3.62%mediana para 10K–100K

Engajamento, %0.60%esta conta1.52%mediana para 10K–100K

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 10K–100K	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	430	924	0.47×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	1.27%	3.62%	0.35×
Taxa de engajamento	0.60%	1.52%	0.40×

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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

2.2K3 Aug

176 Aug

4167 Aug

444

539

6079 Aug

49318 Sep

403

376

41219 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%3 Aug

0.00%6 Aug

0.72%7 Aug

1.35%

1.11%

0.16%9 Aug

1.42%18 Sep

0.25%

1.60%

0.49%19 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes57.9%22 in total

Reposts18.4%7 in total

Replies13.2%5 in total

Quotes2.6%1 in total

Bookmarks7.9%3 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.

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