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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
May 27
Featuring David Salisbury, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Charles Glenn, Professor of Education, Administration, Training, and Policy Studies, Boston University; and James Tooley, Professor of Education Policy, University of Newcastle, England
May 25
Featuring Gary Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics; Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Chris Edwards, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
May 25
Featuring Andrew Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project, and Adam Thierer, Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute.
May 20
Featuring Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise Institute, author of Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, November 2003), and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Correspondent, The Economist, coauthor of The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (Penguin, May 2004).
May 20
Featuring Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House; Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader; Ed Crane, Cato Institute and Thomas Edsall, The Washington Post.
May 17
Featuring Jonathan Rauch, Author, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (Henry Holt, 2004); Michael S. Greve, Director, Federalism Project, American Enterprise Institute; and Genevieve Wood, Vice President for Communications, Family Research Council.
May 13
Featuring Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago; David J. Undis, Executive Director, LifeSharers; and James F. Childress, Former Member, Ethics Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia.
May 12
Featuring Barbara Masekela, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa; Richard Tren, Free Market Foundation of South Africa; George Ayittey, Department of Economics, American University; and Marian L. Tupy, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
May 11
Featuring Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education; Gerard Robinson, University of Virginia; Casey Lartigue, Fight for Children; Clint Bolick, School Choice Alliance; and Howard Fuller, Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University.
May 7
Featuring Irshad Manji, author, with comments by Claude Salhani, United Press International, and Charles Peña, Cato Institute.
May 6
With Honored Guests Milton and Rose Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Fareed Zakaria, and Hernando De Soto, Recipient, 2004 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.
May 5
Featuring Amatzia Baram, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; Ilya Somin, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University; and Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.