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- May 15, 2008 - Whatever Happened to Medicare Reform? - Policy Forum ( Download MP3
)It is 2008. Research suggests the federal Medicare program spends as much as $100 billion per year on medical care that makes seniors no healthier or happier. Its payment system continues to reward low-quality and even harmful medical care. The ...
- May 14, 2008 - The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement ( Download MP3 )
Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law. As a result, conservatives' mobilizing efforts increasingly turned to law ...
- May 13, 2008 - Georgia's Transformation into a Modern Market Democracy ( Download MP3 )
Following the Rose Revolution of 2003, the former Soviet Republic of Georgia began far-reaching reforms in governance and economic policy that are turning the country into a post-socialist success story. Georgia now ranks 44th out of 141 countries ...
- May 8, 2008 - Taxation in Colonial America - Book Forum ( Download MP3 )
Taxation was central to the evolution of government in colonial America, and complaints about taxation led directly to the Revolution in 1776. Taxation in Colonial America provides a definitive history of taxation in the colonies from ...
- May 8, 2008 - Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism - Book Forum ( Download MP3 )
Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor peace, the sole and rightful property of liberals. Right? Wrong. According to Bill Kauffman, true conservatives have always resisted the imperial and ...
- May 7, 2008 - The REAL ID Rebellion: Whither the National ID Law? - Policy Forum ( Download MP3 )
On May 11, 2008, the statutory deadline for compliance with the REAL ID Act will pass without a single state meeting its requirements. Indeed, more than 17 states have passed legislation objecting to or outright refusing to implement this national ...
- May 6, 2008 - The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom ( Download MP3 )
Why are we, in many respects, less free now than we were 200 years ago? How did we get from our Founders’ Constitution, which established a strictly limited government, to today’s Constitution, which has expanded government and curtailed ...
- May 5, 2008 - Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice ( Download MP3 )
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war-a new kind of war that would require new tactics, new government powers, and a new mindset. In a new book, Bush's Law, ...
- May 5, 2008 - What to Do about Self-Funded Campaigns ( Download MP3 )
On April 22, just as Pennsylvania Democrats go the polls in the last large primary before their nominating convention, the Supreme Court will hear yet another challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law: The Millionaires’ Amendment ...
- May 1, 2008 - Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness ( Download MP3 )
Expanding on their widely discussed article on "libertarian paternalism," Professors Sunstein and Thaler argue that people often make bad choices on diet, retirement savings, health insurance, and contributing to climate change. In their new book ...
- April 17, 2008 - Trade-Offs: Why the Colombia FTA Should Pass Regardless of TAA ( Download MP3 )
In May 2007, congressional leaders agreed to consider free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Korea, Panama, and Peru if they were accompanied by additional labor and environmental standards. In the wake of the December 2007 U.S.-Peru FTA ...
- April 17, 2008 - Highly Skilled Immigrants: Opening the Doors to Prosperity - Capitol Hill Briefing ( Download MP3 )
In the modern global economy, highly skilled workers are increasingly important to continued growth and prosperity. Yet despite the dramatically increasing demand for foreign skilled labor, Congress has failed to increase the number of H-1B ...
- April 16, 2008 - McCain: The Myth of a Maverick - Book Forum ( Download MP3 )
John McCain is one of the most familiar figures in American politics, a figure with great appeal to many. However, his concrete governing philosophy and actual track record have been left unexamined. Matt Welch’s new book McCain: The Myth of a ...
- April 16, 2008 - The Mind of the Market: The Case for Capitalism from an Evolutionary Perspective ( Download MP3 )
In his new book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, Michael Shermer examines such questions as: How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern ...
- April 16, 2008 - NATO's New Troubles: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Future of the Alliance - Policy Forum ( Download MP3 )
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is facing a host of new challenges. In Afghanistan, NATO’s forces are being relentlessly attacked by the Taliban, and popular support for maintaining troops there is fading. The proposed deployment of ...
- April 16, 2008 - Human Organs for Sale? ( Download MP3 )
As the U.S. organ donor waiting list nears a record 100,000 and an average of seven Americans die every day waiting for an organ that never comes, solving the U.S. organ shortage takes on new urgency. Matas and Hippen will argue that the shortage ...
- April 16, 2008 - Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property - Book Forum ( Download MP3 )
Returning to the subject that first made him famous over two decades ago, Richard Epstein, the author of Takings, has a new book on property rights. In it, he takes readers from the strongly protective property rights advocated by the ...
- April 16, 2008 - Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson ( Download MP3 )
Twilight at Monticello is an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at Thomas Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about him. During the years from his return to Monticello in 1809 until his death in ...
- April 16, 2008 - Markets vs. Standards: Debating the Future of American Education - Policy Forum ( Download MP3 )
A quarter century ago, A Nation at Risk shook the country and energized two education reform movements: school choice, and government-driven standards and accountability. For years, proponents of these reforms coexisted, even cooperated, ...
- April 10, 2008 - The Venezuelan Student Movement for Liberty - Policy Forum ( Download MP3 )
On December 2, 2007, Venezuelans rejected through a referendum constitutional changes proposed by President Hugo Chávez that would have turned their country into a socialist state. The Venezuelan student movement played the key role in that ...
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