Event Archives - 2004

March 30

The Devil’s Footpath: A Young Person’s Journey through Africa

Featuring June Arunga, Inter-Region Economic Network, Nairobi, Kenya, and George Ayittey, Department of Economics, American University.

March 30

Resolved: Congress Should Remove the Ban on Drug Reimportation

In the affirmative, Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; in the negative, John E. Calfee, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.

March 29

Extinctions of Logic: Is There a Link between Human-Caused Global Warming and Mass Extinction?

Featuring Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute.

March 25

Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do about It

Featuring Star Parker; with comments by Debra Dickerson, Columnist, Beliefnet.com; John McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute.

March 25

Digital Pearl Harbor: How Real is the Cybersecurity Threat, and Who’s Responsible Anyway?

Featuring Andreas Kluth, Moderator, The Economist; Ben Golub, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, VeriSign; Scott Culp, Senior Security Strategist, Microsoft Corporation; Larry Clinton, Operations Officer, Internet Security Alliance; and Wayne Crews, Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute.

March 24

Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes

Featuring the author, William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; with comments by Richard Wagner, Professor of Economics, George Mason University.

March 23

Nurturing Minds or Fostering Hatred? U.S. Involvement in Education in Muslim Countries

Featuring Andrew Coulson, Mackinac Center; Omer Taspinar, Brookings Institution; Amb. Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Bill Evers, Hoover Institution.

March 18

Telecom Reform after the D.C. Circuit Decision: Is It Time for a New Telecom Act?

Featuring Bill Barr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon; and Adam Thierer, Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute.

March 17

Social Security University

Featuring Michael Tanner, director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Choice, and William Shipman, Chairman, Carriage Oaks Partners, LLC.

March 15

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future

Featuring the coauthor Laurence J. Kotlikoff; with comments by Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute; and Barry Bosworth, Brookings Institution.

March 15

Military Manpower Requirements: Too Much or Not Enough?

Featuring Janice Laurence, National Defense University; Christopher Preble, Cato Institute; and Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

March 10

The Road to Serfdom

Featuring James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, George Mason University; Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Leonard P. Liggio, Executive Vice President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and President, Mont Pelerin Society; and Daniel Yergin, Coauthor of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy and Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates.