Latest Study
Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
Featured Event
May 17
Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Spencer Ackerman, Senior Writer, WIRED Magazine; and Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Featured Publication
Latest Multimedia
Latest Commentary
Latest Blog Post
How do bureaucrats enforce vague regulations? Quite poorly.
Featured Book
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.
April 11
Featuring Rob Montz, Director, Juche Strong; and Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute.
April 11
Featuring Amity Shlaes, Director, Four Percent Project, George W. Bush Institute, and author of Coolidge; with comments by Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
April 10
Featuring Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and moderated by Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute.
April 9
Featuring Rep. Scott Garrett, Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, House Financial Services Committee; and Louise Bennetts, Associate Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
April 5
Featuring Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor, Washington Post, author of the book Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan; Ambassador James Dobbins, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; U.S. representative at the Bonn Conference; and U.S. Army Colonel Gian P. Gentile, Professor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, author of the forthcoming book Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency; moderated by Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
April 3
Featuring the author David A. Stockman, Former Budget Director, Reagan Administration; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
April 2
Featuring Edward Hasbrouck, Journalist, Consumer Advocate, Travel Expert, and Consultant, The Identity Project (PapersPlease.org), Author of the book and blog, The Practical Nomad; and Ginger McCall Director, Open Government Program, Electronic Privacy Information Center; moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
April 1
Featuring C. Boyden Gray, Former U.S. Ambassador and White House Counsel, and Founding Partner, Boyden Gray & Associates, LLP; and Michael Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Louise C. Bennetts, Associate Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
March 27
Featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies; Ken Mehlman, Former Chair, Republican National Committee; and Evan Wolfson, Founder and Executive Director, Freedom to Marry; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies.
March 26
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
March 21
Featuring Edward J. Calabrese, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts; moderated by Patrick J. Michaels, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute.
March 21
Featuring Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute; Shikha Dalmia, Reason Foundation; Stuart Anderson, National Foundation for American Policy; and John Tyler, Kauffman Foundation; moderated by Kelly William Cobb, Senior Director of External Affairs, Cato Institute.
