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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.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Equal Protections and Marriage

10 mins; May 23, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Milton Friedman

6 mins; May 22, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Courage is the Secret to Liberty

7 mins; May 21, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Real Problems for REAL ID

4 mins; May 20, 2025

The Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Libertarian Mind

8 mins; May 19, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is the Welfare State Justified?

8 mins; May 16, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Strip Searching Students in a School Covered by Qualified Immunity?

10 mins; May 15, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition?

12 mins; May 14, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Few From The Dirty Dozen

6 mins; May 13, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech

22 mins; May 12, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission

15 mins; May 09, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Communicating Economics in Troubled Times

8 mins; May 08, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Repeal the 17th Amendment?

10 mins; May 07, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Rights, Powers and the Libertarian Vision

13 mins; May 06, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: POTUS as Chief Magistrate

9 mins; May 05, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex

12 mins; May 02, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

10 mins; May 01, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

26 mins; April 30, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Taking Back Congressional Power over Tariffs and Trade

24 mins; April 29, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Women Are More Than Their Interactions with the State

10 mins; April 28, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

29 mins; April 25, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Smoot-Hawley 81 Years Later

9 mins; April 24, 2025

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Asserting Liberty and the Power of ‘No’

33 mins; April 23, 2025

Caleb O. Brown Bids Farewell to the Cato Daily Podcast

43 mins; April 22, 2025

Threats to Migrants' Speech Threaten Americans' Speech

7 mins; April 21, 2025

Court Orders and Administration Responses on Illegal Deportations

10 mins; April 18, 2025

Meta on Trial

13 mins; April 17, 2025

A Lawsuit to End 'Liberation Day' Tariffs

11 mins; April 16, 2025

End Federal Withholding to Clarify What Government Takes

12 mins; April 15, 2025

Taxpayers Like Their Special Handouts, Dislike Yours

9 mins; April 14, 2025

Free Trade Didn’t Kill the Middle Class

11 mins; April 11, 2025

Bad Arguments for Terrible Tariffs

11 mins; April 10, 2025

Governments That Pursue Tariffs Are Terrible Role Models

9 mins; April 09, 2025

The 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Aren't Reciprocal and Other Reasons They Don't Make Sense

14 mins; April 08, 2025

Don’t Ask the Fed to Fix Bad Trade Policy

10 mins; April 07, 2025

The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley Through Eisenhower

55 mins; April 04, 2025

Is Rooftop Solar a Threat to Stable Electricity?

22 mins; April 03, 2025

Challenge Your Narrative & Confront Uncomfortable History

11 mins; April 02, 2025

Tribalism is Dumb: Where It Came from, How It Got so Bad, and What to Do About It

20 mins; April 01, 2025

The Crisis of Dependency: How Our Efforts to Solve Poverty Are Trapping People in It and What We Can Do to Foster Freedom Instead

17 mins; March 31, 2025

State Licensing Reform Liberates Workers

12 mins; March 28, 2025

The 'How' of Ending the US Department of Education

11 mins; March 27, 2025

Government Dietary Advice and the New Alcohol Prohibitionists

18 mins; March 26, 2025

Trump-Era Financial Surveillance Aims to Track Small Transactions

14 mins; March 25, 2025

Administrative Courts and Presidential Deportations

18 mins; March 24, 2025

Pharmacists Can Do Much More; States Should Let Them

11 mins; March 21, 2025

The Phony Invasion at the Heart of Trump's Deportations under the Alien Enemies Act

15 mins; March 20, 2025

Terrorism and Immigration 1975–2024

12 mins; March 19, 2025

By Targeting Certain Law Firms, the President Is Threatening the Constitution

13 mins; March 18, 2025

Which Is Worse: The Regime Uncertainty or the Tariffs?

18 mins; March 17, 2025

Price Transparency Is a Consequence of Robust Health Care Markets

14 mins; March 14, 2025

Christian Asylum Seekers Thwarted by Trump Immigration Policy

12 mins; March 13, 2025

Perttu v. Richards

15 mins; March 11, 2025

Ending the Inflation Reduction Act Could Save Trillions in Handouts

10 mins; March 11, 2025

Capping Credit Card Interest Is Another Bad Idea That Won't Die

12 mins; March 10, 2025

Trade, Tariffs, and Our Big Spending Congress

16 mins; March 07, 2025

Federal Spending Today: Budget Gimmicks and Increasing Debt

14 mins; March 06, 2025

The White House's Confused & Chilling Message on AI Regulation

18 mins; March 05, 2025

Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget

11 mins; March 04, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission Gears up to Punish Tech Platforms

15 mins; March 03, 2025

In Asking for New Federal Scrutiny of Civil Society Groups, Is HUAC Back?

12 mins; February 28, 2025

Modern Libertarianism

24 mins; February 27, 2025

How Deporting Immigrants Harms American Workers

12 mins; February 26, 2025

Your Body, Their Rules

12 mins; February 25, 2025

Government Racial Categories Are (at Best) Pointless

10 mins; February 24, 2025

Questions about Trump's Second Amendment Executive Order

10 mins; February 21, 2025

Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland

14 mins; February 20, 2025

Fentanyl Smugglers Don't Care about Your Stinkin' Laws

15 mins; February 19, 2025

Immigrants Still Use Less Welfare

8 mins; February 18, 2025

To Shrink Government, DOGE Needs Congress

17 mins; February 17, 2025

The Good and Bad of Trump's Education Executive Orders

21 mins; February 14, 2025

Considerations for the Near-Term Future of 'Debanking'

15 mins; February 13, 2025

Tariffs, North American Carmakers, and EV Handouts

19 mins; February 12, 2025

Where Is State-Level Leadership on Housing Reform?

14 mins; February 11, 2025

Tariff Threats and Real-World Impacts

13 mins; February 10, 2025

When Sex Work Is Treated Like Sex Trafficking

10 mins; February 07, 2025

EPA and the Coming Water Fluoridation Fight

17 mins; February 06, 2025

Trump's Open Disrespect for Law Could Be a Calculated Gamble

15 mins; February 05, 2025

What Congress Can Do for Financial Privacy, Innovation, and Freedom

17 mins; February 04, 2025

Would Wider Access to GLP-1s Throttle Addiction?

14 mins; January 31, 2025

Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy

19 mins; January 30, 2025

Libertarianism Oversimplified?

17 mins; January 29, 2025

Facebook, Content Moderation, and Federal Jawboning

21 mins; January 28, 2025

Making Legal Immigration More Difficult Is Part of the Trump Agenda

24 mins; January 27, 2025

What's the Best Way to End the Department of Education?

9 mins; January 24, 2025

Trump Trade Tactics against Canada and Greenland

10 mins; January 23, 2025

The Pardon Power's Importance amid Presidential Abuses

21 mins; January 22, 2025

Assessing the Nuclear Triad

9 mins; January 21, 2025

Should the US Scrap the Presidency?

16 mins; January 20, 2025

Supreme Court Allows TikTok Divest-or-Ban Order to Proceed

12 mins; January 17, 2025

The Policy Choices that Make California Wildfires More Devastating

17 mins; January 17, 2025

Tiktok Users Await Looming US Ban; SCOTUS May Intervene

15 mins; January 16, 2025

Opportunities for State Policymakers in 2025

14 mins; January 15, 2025

"Dark Money" and Election Outcomes

15 mins; January 14, 2025

Small Entrepreneurs Left Behind by the Accredited Investor Rule

13 mins; January 13, 2025

Housing, Building Codes, and State-Level Reform

21 mins; January 10, 2025

Trump, His 'Enemies List,' and the Next Four Years Federal Law Enforcement

16 mins; January 09, 2025

The Corporate Transparency Act Compels Americans to Incriminate Themselves

11 mins; January 08, 2025

Revisiting The Constitution of Liberty

11 mins; January 06, 2025

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society

21 mins; January 02, 2025

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