Held 9/16/08. The Independent Institute presents the Alexis de Tocqueville Award to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actor and director Andy Garcia, and entrepreneur William K. Bowes, Jr. at A Gala for Liberty.
An Independent Policy Forum held on 10/7/10. Robert Nelson, Steven Hayward, and Max Stackhouse discuss Nelson's latest work, "The New Holy Wars," and the contemporary battles between the hidden, secularized but religious nature of economics and environmentalism.
Originally aired 4/4/2009. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses his work as an author and political economist in a featured interview with In Depth on C-SPAN2s Book TV.
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