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Cato Audio • December 1, 2016 

# Timothy Sandefur on his new book *The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do about It*

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##### [Timothy Sandefur](/people/timothy-sandefur)

Vice President for Legal Affairs, Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, Goldwater Institute

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