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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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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013
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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.
July 29
Featuring Prof. Robert McDonald, United States Military Academy; Prof. Donald Boudreaux, George Mason University; Dr. Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; David D. Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Tom G. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Prof. Lynne Kiesling, Department of Economics, Northwestern University.
July 21
Featuring the author Jason Brennan, Georgetown University; with comments by Bryan Caplan, George Mason University, Author, The Myth of the Rational Voter; moderated by John Samples, Cato Institute.
July 21
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, and author of Climate Coup: Global Warming’s Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
July 20
Featuring the author Joseph Gibson; with comments by William Frenzel, Brookings Institution; moderated by John Samples, Cato Institute.
July 20
Featuring Dan Griswold, Director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Renz, Government Affairs Manager, Cato Institute.
July 19
Featuring Vance Fried, Riata Professor of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University; M. Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities; Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution; moderated by Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
July 18
Featuring Dan Mitchell; Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Kevin Williamson, Deputy Managing Editor, National Review; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
July 14
Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Shirley Ybarra, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation; Gabriel Roth, Author, Roads in a Market Economy; moderated by Laura Renz, Government Affairs Manager, Cato Institute.