Cato Podcast
Cato Institute
Each week on Cato Podcast, leading scholars and policymakers from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 22, 2017 • 8min
Why Have Supreme Court Nomination Hearings?
What exactly did the public, much less the Senate, get out of the nomination hearings of Neil Gorsuch? Ilya Shapiro comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 21, 2017 • 7min
Clarity on Immigration and Crime Rates
How do the crime rates of immigrants compare to native-born Americans? Alex Nowrasteh explains in his new paper, Criminal Immigrants: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2017 • 15min
The Wikileaks CIA Dump and Domestic Surveillance
Do any real safeguards assure that Americans' data isn't being collected by intelligence agencies? The new Wikileaks revelations about CIA hacking tools offer little comfort. Patrick Eddington comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 17, 2017 • 9min
A Proposed Cut to HUD
The proposed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development amount to a tiny fraction of total federal welfare spending. Vanessa Brown Calder comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 16, 2017 • 11min
Real Regulatory Change Means Changing Statutes
Peter Van Doren explains why substantive regulatory change will mean changing statutes, not merely reorganizing the executive branch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 15, 2017 • 8min
Does Trump Care about Spending Reform?
The successful spending reforms of other countries may not yet be on the President's radar. They should be. Dan Mitchell explains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 14, 2017 • 13min
Unwarranted: Policing without Permission
A great deal of government surveillance of Americans is done without a warrant. And asserting your right against such surveillance is often virtually impossible. Barry Friedman, author of Unwarranted, comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2017 • 16min
Make Health Insurance Legal Again
The focus of reforming health coverage should be to legalize more varieties of it. So says Dr. Jeffrey Singer, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 9, 2017 • 16min
End the Federal Prohibition on Marijuana
As long as the feds refuse to enforce marijuana laws uniformly across the United States, Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-VA) says it's time to end federal cannabis prohibition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 8, 2017 • 21min
The Disappointing Replacement Plan for ObamaCare
Republicans had the better part of a decade to come up with a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. The House leadership plan retains many of Obamacare's elements. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
