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# March/​April 2023 

Vol. 45 No. 2 

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##### From the Cover 

### [Three Constitutional Issues Libertarians Should Make Their Own ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/three-constitutional-issues-libertarians-should-make-their-own)

By [Ilya Somin](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-somin) 

Libertarians have largely neglected three major constitutional issues that they would do well to focus on much more.

##### Features 

#### [The Compelling Case for Restraint ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/compelling-case-restraint)

By [Peter Goettler](https://www.cato.org/people/peter-goettler) 

Contemplate today’s world had America’s foreign policy followed the path illuminated by Cato’s experts.

#### [Does Liberty Have a Future in Iran? ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/does-liberty-have-future-iran)

By [Sahar Khan](https://www.cato.org/people/sahar-khan), [Mustafa Akyol](https://www.cato.org/people/mustafa-akyol), and Mohamad Machine-Chian 

When you create a religious regime … which forces religion on people, it doesn’t make them more religious.… It makes them contemptuous of religion.

#### [COVID-19 Pandemic Was a Catastrophe for Global Freedom ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/covid-19-pandemic-was-catastrophe-global-freedom)

New *Human Freedom Index*

#### [Cato News Notes ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/cato-news-notes)

#### [Inspiring Future Leaders: A Spotlight on the John Russell Paslaqua Intern Seminar Series ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/inspiring-future-leaders-spotlight-john-russell-paslaqua-intern-seminar-series)

Kenneth Paslaqua provides five more years of funding

#### [Cato Scholarship on Electoral Count Act Helped Drive Big Win ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/cato-scholarship-electoral-count-act-helped-drive-big-win)

Fixing the law to avoid another January 6 confrontation

#### [Cato Studies ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/cato-studies)

#### [To Be Governed… ](/policy-report/march/april-2023/be-governed)

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