Key | Imgs | Short Description |
2019_DC_Art_MessengerO_190411 | 78 | Cato Institute -- Opening Reception: Freedom: Art as the Messenger Freedom: Art as the Messenger - Opening Reception
Freedom means something different to every person, yet its value is a common bond between Americans. In these polarized times, Freedom: Art as the Messenger aims to provide a unifying platform of civility and creativity. Artists from across the country... |
2014_DC_Cato_Surveil_141212 | 147 | Cato Institute -- "2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference" The 2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference
Never in human history have people been more connected than they are today — nor have they been more thoroughly monitored. Over the past year, the disclosures spurred by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have drawn public attention... |
2007_DC_CatALA_070624 | 35 | Cato Institute -- "ALA Reception" (w/PJ O'Rourke, David Boaz, Michael Tanner, Brink Lindsey, and Jim Harper) This book event was tied into the ALA conference. It was a nice evening of free food, spirits, and books. Speakers were:
* P.J. O'Rourke ("On The Wealth of Nations"),
* David Boaz ("Libertarianism: A Primer"),
* Michael D. Tanner ("Leviathan on the Right: How Big Government Conservatism Brought... |
2023_DC_Kingdoms_230914 | 27 | Cato Institute -- "All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism" All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
Published By Oxford University Press * 2023
In the past few years, a new intellectual trend has appeared among America’s Christian conservatives: “post-liberalism.” Its pioneers include a handful of Catholic scholars called... |
2016_DC_Blood_Oil_160113 | 48 | Cato Institute -- "Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World" (w/Leif Wenar) Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World:
The benefits from international trade have been huge. However, because of a deep flaw in global markets for natural resources like oil, consumers are forced to enrich repressive governments and armed groups overseas when paying at the... |
2023_DC_40Cities_231002 | 73 | Cato Institute -- "Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World" (w/Chelsea Follett) Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World
Book Forum
There is no question that certain places, at certain times in history, have contributed disproportionately toward making the world a better place. In this book forum, Chelsea Follett will discuss her debut book that tells the story of 40... |
2012_DC_Cato_Clash_120511 | 28 | Cato Institute -- "Clash of Economic Ideas" (w/Lawrence White, Sylvia Nasar, and James Dorn) The Clash of Economic Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
The last 100 years have seen dramatic experiments in economic policy, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the World Trade Organization. All the while government's role in the economy has steadily grown. The recent global housing bubble and its... |
2018_DC_Coercive_181018 | 34 | Cato Institute -- "Coercive Plea Bargaining" (w/Clark Neily, Somil Trivedi, Bonnie Hoffman, and Scott Hechinger) Coercive Plea Bargaining
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has observed that “criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials.”
Although nowhere mentioned in the text of the Constitution, plea bargaining has become the default mechanism for resolving criminal... |
2006_DC_CatCG_060801 | 14 | Cato Institute -- "Comprehensive Immigration Reform for a Growing Economy" (w/Carlos Gutierrez) Comprehensive Immigration Reform for a Growing Economy: Policy Forum: Featuring The Hon. Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce.
In January 2004, President Bush called upon Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform that would secure our borders, meet our economic needs, and uphold our best... |
2015_DC_Deceit_151208 | 28 | Cato Institute -- "Deceit on the Road to War" (w/John Schuessler, etc) Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy
Liberal democracy improves foreign policy. That, at least, is the view of most political scientists and the idea behind the U.S. Constitution’s assignment of war powers to both executive and legislative branches. The need for... |
2023_DC_Declassification_230926 | 42 | Cato Institute -- "Declassification Engine" (w/Matthew Connelly) The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
The American national security state -- and its accumulated millions of pages of classified records -- has become a fixture of our political, social, and cultural life. Yet prior to World War I, the United States had no... |
2006_DC_CatNE_060907 | 22 | Cato Institute -- "Design for a New Europe" (w/John Gillingham and John Bruton) "Design for a New Europe" (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
The European Union appears to be in trouble. The rise of economic nationalism among member states has thrown the Lisbon Agenda’s goal of European economic revival into disarray, and Europe’s trade protectionism has contributed to the... |
2006_DC_CatEI_061019 | 12 | Cato Institute -- "End of Iraq" (w/Peter Galbraith and Marina Ottaway) The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Author Peter W. Galbraith offers a stinging criticism of the Bush administration’s abortive nation-building policies in Iraq. Galbraith argues that it would have been nearly impossible to ever develop Iraq... |
2007_DC_CatKLA_070309 | 18 | Cato Institute -- "Facing a Challenge" (w/Václav Klaus) Facing a Challenge of the Current Era: Environmentalism: Featuring Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.
President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, one of the leading market reformers of the post socialist era, will be speaking at the Cato Institute about contemporary environmental issues... |
2006_DC_CatFA_061018 | 13 | Cato Institute -- "Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda" (w/Andrew Mwenda) Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda
The international aid lobby claims that increased foreign aid will help to solve Africa’s problems. But, as the case of Uganda shows, foreign aid can exacerbate those problems. Foreign aid, Andrew Mwenda writes in a recent Cato study,... |
2007_DC_CATFF_070426 | 22 | Cato Institute -- "Freeing the Farm" (w/Clayton Yeutter and David Orden) Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans: Policy Forum.
The 2007 farm bill will be written at a crucial time. Budgetary pressures, the foundering Doha Round of trade negotiations, and record-high prices for many commodities all point to the need for serious reform of U.S. agricultural policy.... |
2023_DC_Gonzalez_230302 | 42 | Cato Institute -- "Gonzalez v. Google at the Supreme Court" (w/panel) Gonzalez v. Google at the Supreme Court
Join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoTechnology. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.
Featuring:
* Thomas A. Berry, Research Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional... |
2023_DC_CByProxy_231102 | 9 | Cato Institute -- "Government Censorship by Proxy" (w/Andrew M. Grossman and David Inserra) Government Censorship by Proxy
During the pandemic, governments placed significant public and private pressure on social media companies to remove speech protected by the First Amendment, blurring the line between acceptable government speech and unconstitutional censorship by proxy. Concerns about... |
2006_DC_CatNeg_060920 | 16 | Cato Institute -- "In Defense of Negativity" (w/John Geer and Jeremy Mayer) In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns"
Americans think negative campaign ads undermine elections and even democratic government itself. But John G. Geer argues that when political candidates attack each other, raising doubts about each other’s views and qualifications,... |
2007_DC_CATIPS_070510 | 9 | Cato Institute -- "Invasion of the Party Snatchers" (w/Vic Gold) "Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP"), Featuring the author Victor Gold.
Vic Gold was deputy press secretary for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, which launched the conservative revolution in the Republican Party. He went on to... |
2023_DC_Liar_231107 | 42 | Cato Institute -- "Liar in a Crowded Theater" (w/Jeff Kosseff, Catherine J. Ross, Will Duffield, and Jennifer Huddleston) Liar in a Crowded Theater
Published By Johns Hopkins University Press • 2023
Featuring:
* Jeff Kosseff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Law, United States Naval Academy
* Catherine J. Ross, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
* Will Duffield, Adjunct... |
2018_DC_ORourke_180906 | 26 | Cato Institute -- "None of My Business" (w/P.J. O'Rourke) None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He’s Not Rich and Neither Are You
P. J. O’Rourke, America’s leading political satirist and Cato H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, has been dubbed “the funniest writer in America” by the Wall Street Journal. In... |
2007_DC_CATPJO_070109 | 24 | Cato Institute -- "On the Wealth of Nations" (w/P.J. O'Rourke) P.J. O’Rourke will give a modern-day spin on The Wealth of Nations and Adam Smith’s revolutionary theories on liberty: pursuit of self-interest, division of labor, and freedom of trade. Employing Smith’s insights, P. J. will tackle such present day topics as outsourcing, blogs, central banks, and... |
2019_DC_Open_Borders_191104 | 101 | Cato Institute -- "Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration" (w/Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith) Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
Featuring the authors Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University; blogger, EconLog; and Zach Weinersmith, Illustrator, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic strip; New York Times bestselling author, with comments by Tim Kane, JP... |
2006_DC_CatBlo_061213 | 26 | Cato Institute -- "Overblown: How Politicians etc Inflate National Security Threats" (w/John Mueller and James Gilmore III) Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
Featuring:
* John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University;
* James S. Gilmore, III, Former Governor of Virginia and Chair of the Advisory Panel... |
2023_DC_Pinball_230601 | 65 | Cato Institute -- "Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game" (w/Austin and Meredith Bragg) Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
Please join us at the Cato Institute’s newly renovated, state-of-the-art F. A. Hayek Auditorium for a reception and screening of the award-winning feature film Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game followed by a Q&A session with the film’s directors, Austin and... |
2006_DC_CatAgr_060831 | 22 | Cato Institute -- "Prospects for Reform of U.S. Agricultural Policy" (w/Mike Johanns, Cal Dooley, and Robert Thompson) Prospects for Reform of U.S. Agricultural Policy –With or without Doha
In the next six to nine months, a new farm bill will be written in the United States. The World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda negotiations were an oft-cited reason for reforming U.S. agricultural policy. Now that... |
2019_DC_Scientocracy_191217 | 39 | Cato Institute -- "Scientocracy" (w/Patrick J. Michaels, Terence Kealey, Holden Thorp) Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy
Science has long been the key to objective knowledge. Some of that knowledge, such as information about nutrition, climate change, hydrology, geology, and ecology, influences our daily decisions. Science also informs governments that... |
2023_DC_Korea70th_230719 | 48 | Cato Institute -- "Thawing a Frozen Conflict: The Korean War Armistice at 70 Years" Thawing a Frozen Conflict: The Korean War Armistice at 70 Years
Policy Forum
On July 27, 1953, an armistice took effect, pausing the Korean War. Although much has changed over the last 70 years—North Korea becoming a nuclear state, South Korea becoming a democracy and major economic power, and China... |
2017_DC_Transit_171025 | 35 | Cato Institute -- "The Future of Public Transit" The Future of Public Transit
The nation’s public transit industry faces some of its greatest challenges: ridership has been declining; infrastructure is deteriorating; rivals such as Uber and Lyft are taking transit customers. Does transit have a future? Yes, says Art Guzzetti: transit is a vital part... |
2023_DC_Iraq_War_230316 | 105 | Cato Institute -- "The Iraq War at 20 Years" (w/panels including Sen. Tim Kaine) The Iraq War at 20 Years
On March 20th, 2003, the United States and an allied coalition launched a bombing campaign against Iraq and began the Iraq War to overthrow Saddam Hussein. A protracted campaign led to U.S. occupation and nation–building long after the fall and capture of Hussein. Twenty years... |
2014_DC_Tyranny_141113 | 48 | Cato Institute -- "The Tyranny of Silence" (w/Flemming Rose and Jonathan Rauch) The Tyranny of Silence (Cato Institute Press, 2014)
Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness—it casts a shadow over their ability to tell a story.
No one knows this better than Flemming... |
2019_DC_3Languages_190923 | 27 | Cato Institute -- "Three Languages of Politics" (w/Arnold Kling) The Three Languages of Politics
When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians,... |
2007_DC_CATTPA_070618 | 11 | Cato Institute -- "Trade Promotion Authority, RIP?" (w/Dooley, Cal) Capitol Hill Briefing.
Every U.S. president since 1974 has been granted authority by Congress to negotiate agreements with other nations to expand trade. At the end of June, the Bush administration¦s ability to negotiate such agreements and submit them to Congress for an up-or-down vote, known as Trade... |
2018_DC_Trump_DoctrineBS_180130 | 21 | Cato Institute -- "Trump Doctrine at One Year" -- Breakout Session: The Greater Middle East and the War on Terror The Trump Doctrine at One Year
A year into President Trump’s term, what can we say about the Trump Doctrine? As a candidate, Trump promised dramatic changes for American foreign policy. As president, many would agree he has delivered on that promise. In just one year, Trump withdrew from the... |
2018_DC_Trump_DoctrineGS_180130 | 48 | Cato Institute -- "Trump Doctrine at One Year" -- General Session The Trump Doctrine at One Year
A year into President Trump’s term, what can we say about the Trump Doctrine? As a candidate, Trump promised dramatic changes for American foreign policy. As president, many would agree he has delivered on that promise. In just one year, Trump withdrew from the... |
2019_DC_2Roads_190424 | 43 | Cato Institute -- "Two Roads to War: How (and Why) America and Britain Decided to Invade Iraq" (w/Patrick Porter, Michael Mazarr, etc) Two Roads to War: How (and Why) America and Britain Decided to Invade Iraq
The disastrous choice to use force to remove Saddam Hussein from power did enormous damage to the wealth, well-being, and reputations of the United States and Great Britain. To this day, the hangover of the Iraq war looms large... |
2006_DC_CatMCI_061102 | 14 | Cato Institute -- "U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency" (w/Jeffrey Record, Thomas Ricks, and Conrad Crane) The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency: What We Have Learned in Iraq and Afghanistan
America’s conventional military supremacy has failed to deliver decisive results against irregular forces employing unconventional military tactics. The U.S. military learned some useful counterinsurgency lessons in... |
2006_DC_CatWOT_060908 | 26 | Cato Institute -- "War on Terrorism Five Years after 9/11" (w/Robert Pape, Rand Beers, Andrew Kohut, Flynt Leverett, and Dana Priest) The Cato Institute had a Policy Forum on "The War on Terrorism Five Years after 9/11".
The horrific events of September 11, 2001, dramatically demonstrated the threat posed by suicide terrorism. With the precipitous rise of suicide attacks against democracies, particularly in the five years since... |
2016_DC_Tea_Party_160310 | 27 | Cato Institute -- "Whatever Happened to the Tea Party?" #CatoConnects: Whatever Happened to the Tea Party?
Libertarians and conservatives held high hopes for a return to limited, constitutional government and fiscal responsibility with the arrival of the Tea Party movement in 2008 and 2009. Today, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are making credible runs for... |
2017_DC_Free_Speech_170203 | 30 | Cato Institute -- "Will President Trump Threaten Free Speech?" (w/Flemming Rose, Robert Corn_Revere, and Francis H. Buckley) Will President Trump Threaten Free Speech?
During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump promised to “open up” libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations. He also criticized political donors for fostering corruption and misrule. Later, as president-elect, Trump criticized First... |