Event Archives - 2006

October 31

Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality

Featuring the author Elizabeth Price Foley, Professor of Law, Florida International University, and with comments by William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.

October 27

The Future of the European Common Agricultural Policy and Global Trade Liberalization

Featuring Patrick Messerlin, Director, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.

October 25

Freedom, Commerce and Peace: A Regional Agenda

The Cato Institute, the New Economic School of Georgia, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation are organizing a major international conference in October 2006 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

October 20

Pan-African Free Trade Agreement: Helping Africa through Free Trade

Featuring Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Great Britain; with comments by Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria; and Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.

October 19

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End

Featuring the author, Peter W. Galbraith, Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; with comments by Marina S. Ottaway, Director of Middle East Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

October 18

Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda

Featuring Andrew Mwenda, Political Editor, Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda), with comments by Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.

October 12

Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design

Featuring the author, Michael Shermer, Director, Skeptics Society; With comments by Jonathan Wells, Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute .

October 10

Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World

Featuring the authors Anatol Lieven, New America Foundation; John Hulsman, German Council on Foreign Relations; with comments by Lawrence Kaplan, The New Republic; and Joseph Cirincione, Center for American Progress.

October 4

The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform

Featuring the author John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; with comments by Robert Bauer, Perkins & Coie; and Eliza Newlin Carney, National Journal.

October 3

The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back

Featuring the author Andrew Sullivan, Columnist, Time and the Sunday Times, and with comments by David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times.

September 27

Ivory Tower Overhaul: How to Fix American Higher Ed

Featuring Charles Miller, Chairman, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education; Christopher Nelson, President, St. John’s College; Anya Kamenetz, Author, Generation Debt; Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and moderated by Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed.

September 25

Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few?

Featuring the author, Oleh Havrylyshyn, Former Deputy Director in the Office of Internal Audit, IMF, Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto; with comments by Ambassador Janusz Reiter, Embassy of Poland; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.