Don't miss the many interesting and compelling events coming up over the next few weeks. Unless otherwise noted, each free program is held in the spacious F. A. Hayek Auditorium here at the Cato Institute – 1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW – and is followed by a complimentary reception.

book forum
Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP
Thursday, May 10, 2007 - Noon

Featuring the author, Victor Gold.

About the event - Vic Gold's new book is a lively jeremiad against "a fiscally irresponsible, ever-expanding federal government," a messianic foreign policy, a theocratic view of church and state, and a Republican Party that has accepted all those unconservative ideas.

policy forum
Are Civil Liberties at Risk in the War on Terror?
Thursday, May 24, 2007 - Noon

Featuring Bruce Fein, Chairman of the American Freedom Agenda;
Andrew C. McCarthy, Director of the Center for Law & Counterterrorism.
Moderated by Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute

About the event - The conservative authors of the new American Freedom Agenda charge that since 9/11 the Bush administration has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power and has repeatedly claimed that the president is the law. Others argue that the administration has responded appropriately to the nature of the threat.

policy forum
Health Savings Accounts: Not Entirely Consumer Directed (Yet)
Thursday, May 24, 2007- 4PM

Featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute; Katherine Baicker, Member of the Council of Economic Advisers;
Jason Furman, Senior Fellow and Director of The Hamilton Project.
Moderated by William A. Niskanen, Chairman of Cato Institute.

About the event - More than any other type of consumer-directed health benefits, health savings accounts (or HSAs) give consumers ownership of the health care dollars that employers typically control. However, not even HSAs allow workers full control of their health care dollars and decisions.

book forum
The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - Noon

Featuring the author, Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research at the Cato Institute.
Comments by David Brooks, New York Times.

About the event - This bold reinterpretation of the latter half of the twentieth century explains how and why the ideologies of left and right emerged in response to the novel challenges of mass prosperity. A new consensus is struggling to replace the stale conflicts, mixing the social freedom of the left with the economic freedom of the right into a potentially powerful libertarian perspective.

book forum
Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Thursday, May 31, 2007 - Noon

Featuring the authors Matthew B. Robinson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Appalachian State University and Renee G. Scherlen, Associate Professor of Political Science at Appalachian State University.
Moderated by Timothy Lynch, Director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute.

About the event - Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen's research found numerous instances in which information was distorted to justify continuing the war on drugs. Join us for a discussion of the use and abuse of statistics and of policy recommendations for changing the federal approach to problems associated with drug use.

documentary screening
Mine Your Own Business
Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 5PM

Followed by a Q&A with Alan Hill, CEO, and Richard Young, CFO, of Gabriel Resources.

About the event - Mine Your Own Business is the rare documentary that visits remote parts of the world and interviews locals whose desire for progress contrasts sharply with the goals prescribed to them by foreign environmentalists. Alan Hill and Richard Young of Gabriel Resources, a mining company that is reviving a town in Romania, will briefly discuss the film and explain how their firm and the local community have had to confront the anti-development campaign of Western NGOs.

conference
Cato University
July 22 – 27, 2007
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, $925

Cato University is the Cato Institute’s premier educational event of the year. This annual program brings together some of the best speakers in the country and participants from across the United States for a one-of-kind learning experience.

Cato University’s specially crafted sessions will deepen your understanding of liberty, history, economics, and philosophy and will provide you with exceptionally clear perspectives on current events and what’s on the horizon.

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