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A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia's Social Order (3/17/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Julia Latynina, Independent journalist, Russia. Moderated by Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Did a Lack of Consumer Protection Cause the Financial Crisis? (3/16/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza; Thomas Durkin, Former Economist, Federal Reserve Board; Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG; and Todd Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law. Moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Don't Blame The Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself (3/11/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Robert Sloan, Managing Partner, S3 Partners; with comments by James J. Angel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; and Frank Hatheway, Chief Economist, NASDAQ OMX. Moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State (3/10/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Shane Harris; with comments by Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute. Moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
McDonald v. Chicago: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of Gun Rights (3/3/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation; and Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice.
McDonald v. Chicago: Will the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Apply to the States? (3/1/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Doug Kendall, Founder and President of the Constitutional Accountability Center; and Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
22nd Annual Benefactor Summit (2/25-28/10)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature (2/24/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Timothy Ferris, with comments by Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; and Jonathan Rauch, Contributing editor, the Atlantic Monthly, and visiting scholar, The Brookings Institution. Moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.
Nuclear Weapons Spending and the Future of the Arsenal (2/22/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Stephen I. Schwartz, Editor, Nonproliferation Review, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and principal author, Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities; and Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free.
Would the Senate Health Care Bill Keep the Poor Poor? (2/22/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair, Urban Institute.
Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics? (2/17/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Nick Herbert, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative Party, United Kingdom; Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish Blog, The Atlantic; and Maggie Gallagher, President, National Organization for Marriage.
Greed, Irresponsibility, or Policy Mistakes: What Caused the Recession? (2/5/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute and Steve H. Hanke, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Professor, Applied Economics, and Co-Director, Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise, The Johns Hopkins University.
From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity (2/4/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors, Arnold Kling, Economist and blogger, EconLog; and
Nick Schulz, DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and editor, American.com; with comments by Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Economics editor, The Economist. Moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.
The Rule of Law in Russia (2/2/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Karinna Moskalenko, International Protection Center, Moscow; and Robert Amsterdam, Amsterdam & Peroff, London. Moderated by Andrei Illarionov, Cato Institute.
Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Now? (2/2/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, and Author, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute; and Allison Hayward, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University.
Driverless Cars: The Next Transportation Revolution (1/21/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do about It; and Burkhard Huhnke, Director of Research, Volkswagen America.
Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It (1/20/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy; and Anthony Downs, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
Liberating Bone Marrow Donors (1/19/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jeff Rowes, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice, and plaintiffs' lead counsel in Flynn v. Holder; James F. Childress, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, University of Virginia; and Sigrid Fry-Revere, Founder and President of the Center for Ethical Solutions. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Policy at One Year (1/13/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring a keynote address by Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State. Additional speakers include Clark Ervin, Director, Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program; Paul Pillar, Former CIA official now Professor and Director of Studies of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; Michael German, Former FBI agent now serving as policy counsel on national security, immigration, and privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union; Priscilla Lewis, Co-Director of the U.S. in the World Initiative; and Jacob Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses (1/12/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Timothy P. Carney, Lobbying Editor, Washington Examiner; with comments by Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
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