Upcoming Events

Live Online Policy Forum

Harm Reduction as a Public Health Strategy for Pandemics

June 3, 2020 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
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Featuring Maia Szalavitz, Award‐​Winning Neuroscience Journalist; and Author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction; Leana S. Wen, MD, MSc, Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University; and Distinguished Fellow, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity; moderated by Jeffrey A. Singer, MD, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

Live Online Policy Forum

Building a Modern Military

June 4, 2020 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
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Featuring Wendy J. Jordan, Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense; Christopher A. Preble, Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Lauren Sander, External Relations Manager, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Thomas X. Hammes, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Research, National Defense University; Eric Gomez, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Brandon Valeriano, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

Live Online Policy Forum

COVID-19 and the Right to Test

June 8, 2020 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
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Featuring Jessica Flanigan, MA, PhD (@missjessica), Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values, University of Richmond; Roger D. Klein, MD, JD (@RogerDKlein), FDA & Health Working Group, Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project; former Adviser to the Food and Drug Administration; moderated by Michael F. Cannon, JM, MA (@mfcannon), Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Live Online Policy Forum

Terrible Twos? Taking Stock of U.S.-North Korea Relations Two Years after Singapore

June 12, 2020 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
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Featuring Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Suzanne DiMaggio, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chairman, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; and David Kang, Director, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California; moderated by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

Book Forum

Is Free Speech Still Alive on the American College Campus?

September 10, 2020 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
Featuring Donald A. Downs, Author, Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance; Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus; Affiliate Professor of Law and Journalism Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Jason Kuznicki, Editor, Cato Books and Cato Unbound, Cato Institute (@JasonKuznicki); Katie Harbath, Public Policy Director, Global Elections, Facebook (@KatieHarbath); Robby Soave, Senior Editor, Reason Magazine (@RobbySoave); and Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School, and Past President, American Civil Liberties Union; moderated by Kat Murti, Associate Director, Audience Engagement and Acquisition, Cato Institute (@KatMurti).