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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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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
In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato President and CEO John A. Allison argues that the Federal Reserve is increasing the long-term risk in our financial system through both its monetary and regulatory policies. Also in this issue, James D. Gwartney looks at the incomplete “public choice revolution,” and explains how mainstream economics is leaving both current students and the general public with a misleading, false, and romantic view of government and the operation of the democratic political process.
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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.
May 18, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
March 28, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Gene Healy, Cato vice president and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
February 21, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Christopher A. Preble, Cato’s vice president for defense and foreign policy studies and author of The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
January 26, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with John Samples, director of Cato’s Center for Representative Government and author of The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
December 21, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with James A. Dorn, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Editor of Cato Journal; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
November 14, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia..
October 20, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Daniel Griswold, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
September 20, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
August 18, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
July 21, 2011
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.
June 22, 2011
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, coauthor, Escaping the ‘Graveyard of Empires’: A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan and author, Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
May 19, 2011
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.