The OvertonInstitute
Independent research and education on the hardest policy questions facing the West.
Mission
Moving the Overton Window through research, education and open discussion, and by the evidence we publish.
We widen the range of policy ideas that can be seriously debated in the United States and Europe.
What we do
Five programs to move the Overton Window
Program one
Research and policy
We study the questions the West is reluctant to discuss, we say what we find, and we show how we found it.
Program two
Political engagement
We put the work in front of the people who decide, on both sides of the Atlantic, and we bring them into the same room.
Program three
Media and education
Shows, films and explainers produced by the Institute to distribute our findings and educate the masses.
Program four
Europe
The questions and challenges are the same on both continents. We fund European research that aligns with our mission.
Program five
Legal aid for free speech cases
People who cannot afford a lawyer should not lose the right to speak because of it. We pay the lawyer.
What we believe
We believe the West is worth defending, and we work from a conservative starting point: national sovereignty, the family, free speech, and the inheritance of Western civilization.
Its citizens are entitled to debate every question that bears on their future, and evidence, not fashion, should decide which ideas are acceptable.
We take positions, and we back them up.