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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 30
Featuring Peter Van Doren, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Former professor of public policy at Princeton, Yale, and UNC-Chapel Hill; Michael Tanner, Director, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; and Michael F. Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
May 24
Featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC’s 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel—Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
May 23
Featuring Len Nichols, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation; Ron Pollack, Founding Executive, Director, Families USA; Arnold Kling, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner, Director, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute.
May 23
Featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC’s 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
May 18
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The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of perhaps the greatest champion of liberty in the 20th century, is presented every other year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advancing human freedom. The prize, a cash award of $500,000, will be presented to this year’s winner on May 18 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL.
May 10
Featuring Jack Valenti, Former President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; with comments by Leslie Marx, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission; and moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
May 8
Featuring Shadow Open Market Committee members: Charles Plosser, Cochair; Anna Schwartz, Cochair; Gregory Hess; Lee Hoskins; Alan Stockman; Bennett McCallum; and Mickey Levy.
May 5
The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies invites you to a debate between Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, and Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
May 4
Featuring Tom Palmer, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Director, Byrne Project on Middle East Liberty; Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-WI) Co-chair, Congressional Middle East Economic Partnership Caucus; and Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director, American Islamic Congress.
May 4
Featuring coauthors John C. Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis; Kim Strassel, Senior Editorial Page Writer, Wall Street Journal; and with comments by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.