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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.
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John Mueller, Mark G. Stewart and Benjamin H. Friedman
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Obamacare complicates rather than improves the provision of health care to American Indians.
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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.
October 24, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
July 18, 2012
Featuring the author David Lampo, Cato Institute; with comments by Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by John Samples, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
May 15, 2012
Featuring the author Brian Doherty, Senior Editor, Reason; with comments by Sen. Rand Paul; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
April 4, 2012
Featuring the author Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst, RealClearPolitics.com; with comments by Lance Tarrance Jr., President, Tarrance Consulting and Emily Ekins, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
July 21, 2011
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.
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.
November 3, 2010
Featuring P. J. O’Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
February 17, 2010
Featuring Nick Herbert, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative Party, United Kingdom; Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish Blog, The Atlantic; and Maggie Gallagher, President, National Organization for Marriage.
January 12, 2010
Featuring the author, Timothy P. Carney, Lobbying Editor, Washington Examiner; with comments by Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
October 13, 2009
Featuring the author, James T. Bennett, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Theresa Amato, Author, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny; and Hans A. von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation, and former member, Federal Election Commission. Moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
February 25, 2009
Featuring Louis Fisher, Specialist on the Constitution, Law Library of Congress; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, The George Washington University School of Law. Moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute.
November 4, 2008
Gene Healy, Vice President of Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power