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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.

Congress's Proposed Effective Ban on TikTok Advances

16 mins; March 12, 2024

Why Do Puerto Rico's Potatoes Come from Canada? (It's the Jones Act)

14 mins; March 11, 2024

How Courts Grapple with "Reverse Warrants"

10 mins; March 08, 2024

Undivide Us

14 mins; March 07, 2024

Dozens of States Continue to Attack Donor Privacy

10 mins; March 06, 2024

A Massive Federal Database Contains All of Your Trading Information”

11 mins; March 05, 2024

White House Strongly Supports Widely Abused Surveillance Authorities

13 mins; March 04, 2024

Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech

21 mins; March 01, 2024

SCOTUS Hears the NetChoice Cases

15 mins; February 29, 2024

A Frosty Reception for Wendy's over Dynamic Pricing

11 mins; February 28, 2024

Presidential Candidates Speak (or Not) on Central Bank Digital Currency

12 mins; February 27, 2024

Chiaverini v. Evanoff

8 mins; February 26, 2024

FERC's Quorum Problem and US Energy

8 mins; February 23, 2024

Dollarization at the End of the Javier Milei Honeymoon

14 mins; February 22, 2024

Has US Middle East Policy Failed?

10 mins; February 21, 2024

State Fiscal Health and Cost‐Saving Strategies

15 mins; February 20, 2024

The President's Odd and Expansive Conception of "Junk Fees"

17 mins; February 19, 2024

The Broken Budget Process Demands Fixes Big and Small

14 mins; February 16, 2024

97% of Green Card Applications Will Not Get Approved This Year

18 mins; February 15, 2024

Frederick Douglass among Heroes of Progress

10 mins; February 14, 2024

How Committed Is the US to NATO?

12 mins; February 13, 2024

Congress Should Reject the OECD's Planned Tax Cartel

11 mins; February 13, 2024

Biden's Liquefied Natural Gas Export "Pause" Makes No Sense

12 mins; February 12, 2024

As Surveillance Fight Rises Again, New Fed Spyware Is Revealed

11 mins; February 10, 2024

The Road to Freedom: Estonia's Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth

52 mins; February 09, 2024

Cato Institute Lands on FBI's "Vexsome" List for FOIA Requests

7 mins; February 07, 2024

Containing Medicaid Costs at the State Level

12 mins; February 06, 2024

Reviving Federalism to Tackle the Government Debt Crisis

8 mins; February 05, 2024

"Nicotinophobia" Is for the Children

10 mins; February 01, 2024

Context for the Fresh Calls for War with Iran

12 mins; January 31, 2024

Fresh Chaos at the Border Doesn't Change What's Needed to Rationalize Immigration

12 mins; January 30, 2024

Milei at the World Economic Forum

10 mins; January 29, 2024

Taiwanese Elections and the Looming China Threat

14 mins; January 23, 2024

How Do Europe's Speech Restrictions Impact US Speakers?

16 mins; January 23, 2024

Will China's Military Dysfunction Buy Taiwan Time to Build Its Defenses?

13 mins; January 18, 2024

National Rifle Association v. Vullo

20 mins; January 15, 2024

The SEC's Embarrassing Hack Should Deliver Greater Scrutiny

15 mins; January 12, 2024

New Punitive Crypto Rules Attack Financial Privacy

12 mins; January 11, 2024

Farm Bill Sows Dysfunction for American Agriculture

13 mins; January 10, 2024

Tech Regulation and Legal Challenges in 2024

14 mins; January 09, 2024

Nitazenes and the Consequences of Drug Prohibition

25 mins; January 09, 2024

The Milei Agenda for Argentina So Far

9 mins; January 05, 2024

The Influence of Herbert Spencer

11 mins; January 04, 2024

The Sociology of Herbert Spencer

13 mins; January 03, 2024

Certificate of Need and Government-Run Health Care

16 mins; January 02, 2024

Human Freedom Continues Worrying Decline

12 mins; December 29, 2023

The Big Impact of FDA's Drug Delays

11 mins; December 28, 2023

Globalization Delivers the Goods (and Liberates Our Time)

10 mins; December 27, 2023

The Fundamentals of International Trade They Don't Want You to Know

9 mins; December 26, 2023

Globalization Brings the World's Food to Our Table

15 mins; December 25, 2023

Institutional Investors and the Housing Crunch

10 mins; December 23, 2023

Tallying the Big Gains for Educational Freedom in 2023

10 mins; December 22, 2023

2023 Was A Big Year for Housing Reformers

15 mins; December 21, 2023

Biden Wants to 'March In' to Fix Drug Prices

21 mins; December 20, 2023

US Should Pivot Away from Ukraine Fight

13 mins; December 19, 2023

What Does Data Tell Us about Certificate of Need in Health Services?

13 mins; December 18, 2023

How Arizona Became the Leader in Educational Freedom

12 mins; December 15, 2023

Nikki Haley Wants to Trash Anonymous Online Speech

8 mins; December 14, 2023

Let Pharmacists Prescribe featuring Jeff Singer

12 mins; December 13, 2023

Due Process and Federal Agency Adjudications

9 mins; December 12, 2023

Is Converting Vacant Commercial Property a Housing Solution?

17 mins; December 10, 2023

Supreme Court Ponders Federal Agencies That Act Like Courts

12 mins; December 08, 2023

Looking Ahead to Shrinking Federal Surveillance Powers

18 mins; December 08, 2023

Defending Gestational Surrogacy

15 mins; December 07, 2023

Occupational Licensing Reform in 2023 and Beyond

16 mins; December 06, 2023

Tracking CBDCs Before They Launch

8 mins; December 02, 2023

Addressing Big Impediments to Delivering Civil Justice

23 mins; December 01, 2023

Canada's Link Tax Delivers Dire Warning

8 mins; December 01, 2023

Illinois Handed Immense Power to Government Unions, So How's It Going?

9 mins; November 27, 2023

What Does OPEC Do and Should We Care?

11 mins; November 24, 2023

One Local Impediment to Free-Range Kids

13 mins; November 23, 2023

What Incentives Do State Regulators Face?

11 mins; November 22, 2023

Is Javier Milei, Argentina's Next President, A Libertarian?

9 mins; November 21, 2023

Cataloging the Myriad Ways You Can Land in Jail

13 mins; November 21, 2023

Taiwan's Defense and US Policy

12 mins; November 20, 2023

Are Public School Libraries Accomplishing Their Mission?

16 mins; November 17, 2023

Expiring Authority for Warrantless Surveillance Meets Resistance

22 mins; November 16, 2023

Let Pharmacists Prescribe

59 mins; November 15, 2023

The New Right Gets Mugged by an Old Reality

17 mins; November 13, 2023

Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know

23 mins; November 10, 2023

An Expulsion of Afghans from Pakistan

10 mins; November 08, 2023

The Trouble with Methadone Clinics

18 mins; November 07, 2023

Recovery and the Unfulfilled Promises of Obamacare

13 mins; November 06, 2023

Government Censorship by Proxy

61 hours 44 mins; November 06, 2023

Biden's Big, Early Move to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

13 mins; November 02, 2023

US Weapons Arm Both Israeli and Hamas Fighters

10 mins; November 01, 2023

A Mindset for Embracing Educational Freedom

14 mins; October 31, 2023

'American Deindustrialization' Is a Dangerous Myth

11 mins; October 30, 2023

What Should Libertarians Expect from House Speaker Mike Johnson?

7 mins; October 27, 2023

All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism

22 mins; October 26, 2023

Who Decides What 'News Distortion' Means?

12 mins; October 25, 2023

For Good and Ill, Your Car Is Collecting Your Data

11 mins; October 24, 2023

Where Does Speech End and 'Jawboning' Start?

11 mins; October 23, 2023

Ecuador's Emerging Opportunity to Exit '21st Century Socialism'

12 mins; October 21, 2023

How States, Feds, and Countries Are Approaching 'Online Safety

13 mins; October 20, 2023

Are States Trying to Subvert Donor Privacy Since Bonta?

10 mins; October 19, 2023

As Universal School Choice Advances, Hurdles Remain

9 mins; October 18, 2023

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

21 mins; October 17, 2023

Recovery: A Guide to Reforming the U.S. Health Sector

14 mins; October 16, 2023

Balancing the Loud, Local Voices Opposing New Housing

12 mins; October 13, 2023

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