Event Archives - 2011

May 25

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Featuring the author Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Adam Schaeffer, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

May 25

Limiting Government: What Washington Can Learn from Minnesota

Featuring Tim Pawlenty, Former Governor of Minnesota; with an introduction by Ed Crane, President, Cato Institute.

May 20

Answering the Critics of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Featuring Stuart Anderson, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; and Frank Sharry, Executive Director, America’s Voice; moderated by Laura Renz, Government Affairs Manager, Cato Institute.

May 19

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute Author, Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.

May 18

The Case for Marriage Equality: Perry v. Schwarzenegger

Featuring the co-counsels, David Boies, Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner and Former Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; and Theodore B. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Former Solicitor General. With comments by the co-chairs of the advisory board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; and John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress.

May 17

Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

Featuring the author Douglas A. Irwin, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

May 16

Leashing the Surveillance State: How to Renew and Reform Patriot Act Surveillance Authorities

Featuring Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and Mike German, Senior Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute

May 13

Why Are We at War in Libya?

Featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.

May 10

America’s Allies and War: Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq

Featuring the author Jason W. Davidson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington; with comments by Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

May 9

The Moral Implications of Deficits, Debt, and the Budget Battles Ahead

Featuring Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, George Washington University; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.

May 5

The Arab Awakening and Its Implications

Featuring David Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director, American Islamic Congress; and Stanley Kober, Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; moderated by Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.

May 4

Climate Coup: Global Warming’s Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives

Featuring Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT; Bob Ryan, Fellow and past president of the American Meteorological Society and meteorologist for WJLA / ABC 7 News; moderated by Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and editor of Climate Coup.