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City Seminar 

# Cato on Tour: Chicago 

Date and Time 

**September 9, 2025** 
5–7 PM CDT 

Location 

Ritz-Carlton Chicago, 160 E Pearson St, Chicago, IL 

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**What’s driving the deepening divide between young men and women in America?** From social media to speech codes, parenting norms to political movements, Gen Z is coming of age in a moment of rising gender polarization. Join *New York Times* columnist [**David French**](https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-french?utm_campaign=Event_Invitation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Cato_Email) and *New York Post* journalist and coauthor of *The Canceling of the American Mind* [**Rikki Schlott**](https://nypost.com/author/rikki-schlott/?utm_campaign=Event_Invitation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Cato_Email) for a candid conversation on the forces reshaping identity, liberty, and civil discourse—**and what it means for the future of a free society.**

For more information, please contact Serena Home at (202) 218‑4602 / [shome@​cato.​org](mailto:shome@%E2%80%8Bcato.%E2%80%8Borg).

#### Schedule

5:00 - 5:45 PM 

**Reception**

5:45 - 6:15 PM 

**Welcoming Remarks and Cato’s Vision for Liberty**

**Peter Goettler**, President and CEO, Cato Institute 
**Alex Nowrasteh**, Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies, Cato Institute 
Moderated by **Harrison Moar**, Vice President for Development, Cato Institute

6:15 - 7:00 PM 

**The Gen Z Gender Divide: Politics, Parenting, and Polarization in a Free Society**

**Rikki Schlott**, Journalist, *New York Post*; co-author, *The Canceling of the American Mind* 
**David French**, Columnist, *New York Times*

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