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John Lewis, Libertarian Hero

By Michael F. Cannon.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, throw a little love to all those in the Civil Rights Movement who gave their minds, gave their bodies, and sacrificed for the cause of freedom.

Blog

Stop Treating Adopted Kids Differently Based on Race

By Ilya Shapiro.

The Fifth Circuit should reverse a ruling that allows the Indian Child Welfare Act to continue harming the very people it was supposed to help.

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Commentary

John Lewis, Libertarian Hero

By Michael F. Cannon. January 17, 2020.

Insult, Injury and Religious Liberty

By Walter Olson. Wall Street Journal. October 9, 2019.

Segregation and the School Choice Movement

By Neal McCluskey. Education Next. August 30, 2019.
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Blog Posts

Stop Treating Adopted Kids Differently Based on Race

By Ilya Shapiro. January 13, 2020.

Supreme Court Should Decide the “Expressive Wedding Vendor” Issue Once and for All

By Ilya Shapiro and Michael Collins. October 14, 2019.

Cato Studies

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

By David Bier. August 29, 2018.

The Nordic Glass Ceiling

By Nima Sanandaji. March 8, 2018.

The State of Free Speech and Tolerance in America

By Emily Ekins. October 31, 2017.
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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

Reagan National Advertising of Austin v. City of Austin

By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, and Patrick Moran. July 17, 2019.

Waples Mobile Home Park v. de Reyes

By Joshua P. Thompson, Christopher M. Kieser, Mollie R. Williams, Ilya Shapiro, & Trevor Burrus. April 17, 2019.

Arlene’s Flowers v. Washington

By Ilya Shapiro, Patrick Moran, and Jeffrey Paul Helsdon. February 26, 2019.
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Cato Reviews & Journals

The New Gulag Archipelago

By Nury Turkel. Spring 2019.

Adoption and the Anti‐​discrimination Wars

Fall 2018.

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

By Rodney A. Smolla. Fall 2018.
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Events

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.

The New Gulag Archipelago: How China “Reeducates” the Uyghurs and Why the World Should Be Alarmed

November 28, 2018. Policy Forum.
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Speeches

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

March 16, 2016

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

Multimedia

Robert A. Levy discusses same sex marriage and other topics on The Bob Harden Show

Featuring Robert A. Levy. January 15, 2020.

Do We Need Hate Speech?

Featuring Lou Perez and Caleb O. Brown. November 21, 2019.

The New Push to Ban Hate Speech

Featuring Matthew Feeney and Caleb O. Brown. November 15, 2019.

Ilya Shapiro discusses the Supreme Court’s DACA case on CBS This Morning

Featuring Ilya Shapiro. November 12, 2019.
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