Cato Podcast
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The Great Political Realignment
52 mins; April 02, 2026
Congressional Feuding and Airport Chaos
22 mins; March 31, 2026
The Flaws of Rent Ceilings
42 mins; March 26, 2026
Surf, Speech, and Government Cartels
46 mins; March 24, 2026
Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation (Z)
40 mins; March 19, 2026
Who's Watching the $170 Billion?
31 mins; March 17, 2026
Anthropic, Albany, and the AI Backlash
40 mins; March 12, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz and the Price of War
26 mins; March 10, 2026
Unlawful Voting Is a Tiny Problem
36 mins; March 05, 2026
War Powers and the Road to Iran
30 mins; March 03, 2026
Rhetoric vs. Reality in the State of the Union
40 mins; February 26, 2026
Who Decides When America Goes to War?
36 mins; February 24, 2026
No Tax on Tips, New Tax on Billionaires?
41 mins; February 19, 2026
Ed Crane and the Ideas That Changed Washington — and the World
35 mins; February 17, 2026
Raging Against Modernity
40 mins; February 12, 2026
Why Globalization Wins on the Field
38 mins; February 10, 2026
Protest, Carry, Die: Rights in Conflict
39 mins; February 05, 2026
Reforming the Federal Reserve, Brick by Brick
27 mins; February 03, 2026
Why Propping Up Maduro’s Allies Won’t Save Venezuela
29 mins; January 29, 2026
History Makes Clear: School Choice Is Necessary in a Diverse Society
50 mins; January 27, 2026
Iran on the Brink: Another Middle East War in the Making?
30 mins; January 22, 2026
What’s Missing from the White House’s Health Care Plan
29 mins; January 19, 2026
Fallout From the Minnesota Fraud Scandal
29 mins; January 15, 2026
Free Markets for Electricity
44 mins; January 13, 2026
When Presidents Decide to Go to War Alone: Venezuela Edition
28 mins; January 08, 2026
Debanked for Dissent: How Putin’s Reach Extends Abroad
37 mins; January 06, 2026
Banking on Moral Hazard: The Push for $10 Million Deposit Insurance
34 mins; January 01, 2026
Australia’s Social Media Ban and the Illusion of Online Safety
39 mins; December 30, 2025
How Fuel Economy Rules Made Cars Bigger, Pricier, and Less Safe
40 mins; December 23, 2025
Social Security’s Popularity Problem
33 mins; December 18, 2025
The Global Freedom Slump
35 mins; December 16, 2025
Better Care for Billions Less: Fixing Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Incentives
45 mins; December 11, 2025
Strategy Without Strategy: Inside the New NSS
39 mins; December 09, 2025
Repeal Day: Alcohol Prohibition and the Hypocrisy of the Drug War
31 mins; December 04, 2025
NIH's Lost Mission
37 mins; December 02, 2025
Superabundance at Thanksgiving
36 mins; November 26, 2025
Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics
37 mins; November 25, 2025
The Disaster Aid System: How FEMA Rewards Risk
29 mins; November 20, 2025
The Shutdown That Solved Nothing
32 mins; November 18, 2025
Don’t Do It, Mr. President: The Prospect of a US War in Venezuela
31 mins; November 13, 2025
The Supreme Court’s $300 Billion Tariff Showdown
39 mins; November 11, 2025
What a Long Shutdown It's Been
34 mins; November 05, 2025
The $650,000 Question: How Steel Protectionism Fails
38 mins; November 04, 2025
Five* Types of Innovative "Schools"
40 mins; October 30, 2025
Five* Types of Innovative "Schools"
29 mins; October 30, 2025
Political Pressure and Monetary Policy
32 mins; October 28, 2025
Feeding AI's Energy Appetite
29 mins; October 21, 2025
Peace President?
47 mins; October 16, 2025
Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution
32 mins; October 14, 2025
Trump Universities?
45 mins; October 09, 2025
Protecting Expression in Crisis
31 mins; October 07, 2025
Shutdowns and Shadow Dockets
46 mins; October 02, 2025
How Government Shutdowns Actually Work
43 mins; September 30, 2025
Doing It the Hard Way
45 mins; September 25, 2025
SEC Commissioner Challenges Financial Surveillance
35 mins; September 23, 2025
Free Speech and Domestic Tranquility
45 mins; September 18, 2025
The Rise of University Administration
31 mins; September 17, 2025
The Purse and the Sword
47 mins; September 11, 2025
Cato Cage Match: Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy
30 mins; September 09, 2025
First, Do No Harm
44 mins; September 04, 2025
Righting the Endangerment Finding
23 mins; September 02, 2025
High-Stakes Intel
41 mins; August 28, 2025
TikTok: Free Speech or Security Threat?
33 mins; August 26, 2025
Capital Punishments
44 mins; August 21, 2025
Trade, Power, and Tension: The U.S.-China Story
24 mins; August 19, 2025
Summits, Guns, and Money
45 mins; August 14, 2025
From Risk to Innovation: Analyzing Trump's New AI Action Plan
28 mins; August 12, 2025
Offers You’d Better Not Refuse
41 mins; August 07, 2025
Atomic Economics
31 mins; August 05, 2025
One and a Half Cheers for SCOTUS
37 mins; July 31, 2025
SCOTUS Roundup
32 mins; July 29, 2025
The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful
35 mins; July 24, 2025
Cato Cage Match: Education vs. Health Care
33 mins; July 22, 2025
Aimless Rivalry: U.S. and China in the Middle East
24 mins; July 17, 2025
Stablecoins and the Fight for a Level Playing Field
29 mins; July 15, 2025
The Rise and Fall of DOGE 1.0
28 mins; July 10, 2025
Misinformation in the Age of AI
31 mins; July 08, 2025
The Illusion of Financial Privacy
26 mins; July 03, 2025
One Big Beautiful Podcast
28 mins; July 01, 2025
An Announcement from the Cato Institute
1 min; June 23, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Would-Be Home Distiller Fights Back in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury
17 mins; June 20, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Converting Vacant Commercial Property a Housing Solution?
18 mins; June 19, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: When Lawmakers Don’t Make the Laws (State Government Edition)
12 mins; June 18, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Why Do Rights-Violating University Officials Get Qualified Immunity?
12 mins; June 17, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Psychedelics and the Advance of Cognitive Liberty
26 mins; June 16, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Don’t Stop Impeachin’
14 mins; June 13, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
17 mins; June 12, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: What's the Benefit of Religious Charter Schools?
19 mins; June 11, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Nat Hentoff
14 mins; June 10, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: How the U.S. Failed to Adjust to China's Economic Rise
14 mins; June 09, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Detailing The Libertarian Mind
15 mins; June 06, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: One Local Impediment to Free-Range Kids
13 mins; June 05, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Conservative Sensibility
15 mins; June 04, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Gathering Storm in State Pensions
18 mins; June 03, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Let’s Render Some Federal Codes Unenforceable
26 mins; June 02, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Ben and Jerry and the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity
14 mins; May 30, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Judicial Activism in Defense of Liberty
10 mins; May 29, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Life and Death and Future Life of Fusionism
18 mins; May 28, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
16 mins; May 27, 2025
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise
17 mins; May 26, 2025