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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.

Trump and Harris Aren’t Free Traders

14 mins; July 29, 2024

Past and Present Efforts to Obscure Presidential Health Problems

16 mins; July 26, 2024

Trump and Harris on Energy Policy

8 mins; July 25, 2024

Joe Biden's Departure and the Unserious Challenges to State Electoral Deadlines

12 mins; July 24, 2024

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

29 mins; July 23, 2024

J.D. Vance on Immigration

16 mins; July 22, 2024

Free Trade in the Name of National Security

11 mins; July 19, 2024

The Ever-Expanding Definition of 'Public Health'

10 mins; July 19, 2024

Two Problems That Vanish with the End of Cannabis Prohibition

9 mins; July 18, 2024

Regulating AI and Free Expression

13 mins; July 17, 2024

Social Security Still Poses Massive Fiscal Risks

22 mins; July 16, 2024

What about the Feds’ Junk Fees?

8 mins; July 15, 2024

More Thoughts on Trump v. United States

17 mins; July 13, 2024

The NetChoice Cases Deliver Win for Freedom of Speech

11 mins; July 11, 2024

'Jawboning' and Murthy v. Missouri

20 mins; July 10, 2024

Adjudicating Federal Agency Claims after Jarkesy

23 mins; July 08, 2024

Initial Thoughts on Trump v. United States

13 mins; July 05, 2024

America's Birth Certificate in Context

14 mins; July 04, 2024

Examining the Evidence on Immigrant Crime

10 mins; July 03, 2024

Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference

15 mins; July 02, 2024

A Tiny Silver Lining for Liberty in the NDAA

8 mins; July 01, 2024

Streetcars Won't Solve Any of Your City's Problems

13 mins; June 29, 2024

Considering Options as Presidential Age Takes Center Stage

19 mins; June 28, 2024

The Future of Military Conscription?

14 mins; June 27, 2024

The Second Amendment and United States v. Rahimi

19 mins; June 27, 2024

Police Lies, Malicious Prosecution, and Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio

6 mins; June 26, 2024

Federal Taxes on Unrealized Income and Moore v. United States

10 mins; June 25, 2024

Intuit Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission

11 mins; June 24, 2024

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America

14 mins; June 19, 2024

Digital Currency or Digital Control?: Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money

27 mins; June 18, 2024

How to Achieve the Lowest Tax Rates in A Century

11 mins; June 17, 2024

Biden Executive Order Makes Life Harder for Asylum Seekers

18 mins; June 14, 2024

Guns, Dope, Hunter Biden, and Constitutional Rights

15 mins; June 13, 2024

David Boaz: The Libertarian Exponent

34 mins; June 12, 2024

David Boaz: "Now, It’s Your Turn"

16 mins; June 07, 2024

Congress Should Stop Hindering Private Saving

10 mins; June 06, 2024

Don't Freeze Technological Advancement to Stem AI

13 mins; June 05, 2024

Clawing Back Emergency Executive Authorities

22 mins; June 04, 2024

Social Movements and Profit Opportunities

12 mins; June 01, 2024

Donald Trump Convicted

12 mins; May 31, 2024

What Impedes Social Mobility?

12 mins; May 31, 2024

Assessing the Intelligence Risks of Chinese-Made Drones

14 mins; May 29, 2024

Trump, RFK Jr., and the Libertarian Party

12 mins; May 28, 2024

New Leadership in Taiwan as China Threat Looms

16 mins; May 27, 2024

How the ‘Open Fields Doctrine’ Nullifies the Fourth Amendment

15 mins; May 25, 2024

Marking a Century of Broken Immigration Policy

14 mins; May 24, 2024

The Fatal Fallacy for Fans of CBDCs

9 mins; May 24, 2024

John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and The Subjection of Women

11 mins; May 22, 2024

A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers

13 mins; May 21, 2024

J.S. Mill, On Liberty, and How Liberals Think

13 mins; May 20, 2024

Congress Should Make No Law Setting Speech Rules for Universities

15 mins; May 18, 2024

Confront Errors in "Pandemic Inflation"

14 mins; May 17, 2024

The Wage Gap and The War on Prices

14 mins; May 16, 2024

Rent Control: Another Bad Idea That Never Dies

8 mins; May 15, 2024

The Pink Tax and The War on Prices

11 mins; May 13, 2024

The Punishing Effects of Credit Card Interest Caps

9 mins; May 13, 2024

What Should We Learn from New Data on Price Gouging Laws?

14 mins; May 10, 2024

Will AI Power a Better Future for Local Journalism?

7 mins; May 09, 2024

Exploring Tensions among the US, China, and Europe

10 mins; May 08, 2024

Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education

11 mins; May 07, 2024

Trump and Biden Aren't Free Traders, so What's the Difference?

13 mins; May 06, 2024

Medicare Can't and Won't Go on Like This

21 mins; May 03, 2024

Will Your Financial Advisor Soon Have to Snitch on You?

12 mins; May 02, 2024

Descheduling is Preferable to Rescheduling Cannabis

10 mins; May 01, 2024

Feds Beat the Drum for Early Childhood Education Spending

11 mins; April 30, 2024

Upsides and Risks of Increasing State Capacity

18 mins; April 29, 2024

Biden Continues Transferring Student Debt to Taxpayers

10 mins; April 27, 2024

How Much Immunity from Future Prosecution Is Due to Former Presidents?

14 mins; April 26, 2024

Reputation, Dynamism, and Strangers with Candy

9 mins; April 25, 2024

Congressional Fans of Warrantless Surveillance on Americans Win Another Round

17 mins; April 24, 2024

North Carolina Made Big Promises to VinFast and Locals Are Paying the Price

16 mins; April 23, 2024

Wielding Federal Power with Accountability to Congress

12 mins; April 22, 2024

Housing Wealth and Generational Wealth

12 mins; April 19, 2024

Reduce Deficits Now to Avoid Fiscal Crisis

13 mins; April 18, 2024

Tariffs Are Taxes, but Who Pays the Tax?

14 mins; April 17, 2024

Bitcoin Mining and the Price of Energy

11 mins; April 16, 2024

Income Taxes Are Scheduled to Go Up in 2026

6 mins; April 15, 2024

What Has the US Promised to Taiwan?

10 mins; April 13, 2024

Measuring the Relationships between Human Freedom and Prosperity

11 mins; April 12, 2024

Inflated Revenue Claims in Pursuit of a Wealth Tax

9 mins; April 10, 2024

Reevaluating the US/Israel Relationship

11 mins; April 09, 2024

A Reform Agenda for the Securities and Exchange Commission

13 mins; April 08, 2024

Does the Great Realignment Make More Room for Libertarian Ideas?

12 mins; April 06, 2024

Ensuring Election Speed, Efficiency, and Security

21 mins; April 05, 2024

The High Cost of Mandatory Parking

12 mins; April 03, 2024

There Is No Such Thing as a Wage-Price Spiral

6 mins; April 02, 2024

The Nuclear Ratchet: Crisis, Leviathan, and Atomic Weapons

11 mins; April 01, 2024

Replacing Federal Bureaucrats and the Trump Agenda

14 mins; March 29, 2024

Courts Should Affirm First Amendment Rights of Youths in the Digital Age

7 mins; March 27, 2024

United States v. Apple

19 mins; March 27, 2024

Private School Enrollment in the Wake of COVID-19

12 mins; March 26, 2024

A Would-Be Home Distiller Fights Back in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury

17 mins; March 25, 2024

The Canceling of the American Mind

30 mins; March 23, 2024

SCOTUS Tells Feds They Can't Wish Away Certain Cases

11 mins; March 22, 2024

the China Dilemma?: Rethinking US-China Relations through Public Choice Theory

12 mins; March 21, 2024

The Fertility Gap and Economic Freedom

16 mins; March 20, 2024

Gaming War Games

11 mins; March 19, 2024

The President Proposes a Homeowner Handout

11 mins; March 18, 2024

Biden Seeks to Weaken Short-Term Health Plans

11 mins; March 14, 2024

The SEC's Big New Climate Disclosure Rule

10 mins; March 13, 2024

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