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The Rights of Women

By David Boaz.

The cause of women’s rights has always been bound up with the spread of classical liberalism.

Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 226

Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I

By Andreas Ferrara and Price V. Fishback.

Multimedia

Walter Olson discusses Federal agents in Portland Oregon on Yahoo! Finance’s The Ticker

Featuring Walter Olson. July 23, 2020.

Walter Olson discusses the federal police presence in Portland Oregon on WWL’s First News with Tommy Tucker

Featuring Walter Olson. July 23, 2020.

Patrick Eddington discusses federal police in Portland, OR on Hearst TV

Featuring Patrick G. Eddington. July 22, 2020.

Walter Olson discusses the Portland protests on Deutsche Welle

Featuring Walter Olson. July 22, 2020.
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Books

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Deep Commitments

September 2017
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The Tyranny of Silence

November 2014
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Religious Liberties for Corporations?: Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution

November 2014
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You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws

December 2003
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The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton

December 1999
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Reclaiming the Mainstream

March 1992

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Commentary

How One Pandemic Leads to Another

By Tom G. Palmer and Simon Lee. CapX. April 8, 2020.

Marine Corps Is Right to Eliminate Confederate Paraphernalia

By Doug Bandow. American Spectator (Online). March 8, 2020.

Minnesota Bids to Segregate its Child‐​Welfare Agencies

By Walter Olson. Wall Street Journal. February 28, 2020.
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Blog Posts

The Rights of Women

By David Boaz. August 25, 2020.

Courts Shouldn’t Punish Plausible Claims of Civil Rights Abuses

By Ilya Shapiro. July 8, 2020.

With Nod To Scalia, Surprise Plain Meaning Carries Day for LGBT Plaintiffs

By Walter Olson. June 15, 2020.
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Cato Studies

Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I

By Andreas Ferrara and Price V. Fishback. August 5, 2020.

Same‐​Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

By Daniel S. Hamermesh and Scott Delhomme. July 15, 2020.

U.S. Citizens Targeted by ICE: U.S. Citizens Targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas

By David J. Bier. August 29, 2018.
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Articles

Federal Appeals Court Should Reject Total Immunity for Prosecutors

By Jay Schweikert. New York Law Journal. April 25, 2018.

Can a Surfeit of Statutes “Accommodate” Religious Liberty?

By Roger Pilon. Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and and Future of Religious Liberty. 2017.

Public Schooling and Religious Equality Cannot Coexist

By Neal McCluskey. Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and and Future of Religious Liberty. 2017.
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Public Filings

Higginson v. Becerra

By Christopher M. Kiser, Joshua P. Thompson, and Ilya Shapiro. May 5, 2020.

Statement for the Record RE: “The Administration’s Religious Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights”

By Walter Olson. February 26, 2020.

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis

By Ilya Shapiro, Eugene Volokh, and James Knight. January 29, 2020.
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Cato Reviews & Journals

The New Gulag Archipelago

By Nury Turkel. March/​April 2019.

Adoption and the Anti‐​discrimination Wars

September/​October 2018.

Regulation of Political Apparel in Polling Places: Why the Supreme Court’s Mansky Opinion Did Not Go Far Enough

By Rodney A. Smolla. 2017–2018.
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Events

Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In‐​Laws

October 6, 2020. Live Online Book Forum.

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

September 26, 2019. Book Forum.

America’s Border Wars: Inside the Constitution‐​free Zone

February 4, 2019. Policy Forum.
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Speeches

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

March 16, 2016

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