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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.
November 15
Featuring Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics, Chapman University, and Nobel Laureate in Economics; Thomas Hoenig, Vice Chairman,Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John B. Taylor, Professor of Economics, Stanford University; George S. Tavlas, Director, Bank of Greece; Jürgen Stark, Former Chief Economist, European Central Bank; and Charles I. Plosser, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
November 14
Featuring Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute, author, The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power; John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, author, The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History; moderated by Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute.
November 14
Featuring the author Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Christopher A. Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
November 8
Featuring the author Jason Brennan, Assistant Professor of Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University; with comments by Aaron Ross Powell, Research Fellow, Cato Institute and Editor, Libertarianism.org; and Tom Merrill, Assistant Professor of Government, American University; moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
November 1
Featuring J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies.
October 26
Featuring: John A. Allison President, Cato Institute; P. J. O’Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Edward H. Crane, President Emeritus, Cato Institute; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
October 25
Featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Tom G. Palmer, Executive Vice President, International Programs, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution; moderated by Chip Bishop, Director of Student Programs, Cato Institute.
October 25
Featuring the author Brink Lindsey, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Reihan Salam, Policy Advisor at Economics 21, Columnist for Reuters Opinion, and Contributing Editor at National Review Online; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
October 24
Featuring the author John A. Allison, President, Cato Institute, and Former Chairman and CEO, BB&T Corporation; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
October 24
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
October 23
Featuring the co-author Jeffrey Herbst, President, Colgate University; with comments by Todd Moss, Vice President, Center for Global Development, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, State Department; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
October 19
Featuring the authors Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.