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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise
26 mei 2025 · 18 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Equal Protections and Marriage
23 mei 2025 · 10 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Milton Friedman
22 mei 2025 · 7 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Courage is the Secret to Liberty
21 mei 2025 · 7 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
In presenting the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to Danish newspaper editor Flemming Rose, former ACLU president Nadine Strossen discusses the importance of unfettered freedom of speech.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Real Problems for REAL ID
20 mei 2025 · 5 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Libertarian Mind
19 mei 2025 · 8 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
Libertarianism — the philosophy of personal and economic freedom — has deep roots in Western civilization and in American history, and it’s growing stronger. Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz talks about the renewed appetite for smaller government and more freedom.
The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is the Welfare State Justified?
16 mei 2025 · 9 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Strip Searching Students in a School Covered by Qualified Immunity?
15 mei 2025 · 10 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
Discussions of qualified immunity focus almost exclusively on police. What about when public school administrators clearly violate the rights of students? Should parents of those children be able to hold administrators accountable in civil court? Chris Kemmitt is the deputy director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition?
14 mei 2025 · 13 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
What’s the best path forward to end cannabis prohibition without loading it up with needless federal regulation? Jim Higdon is the co-founder of Cornbread Hemp and an advocate for an end to cannabis prohibition. He says the Farm Bill is the key.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Few From The Dirty Dozen
13 mei 2025 · 7 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech
12 mei 2025 · 22 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
In assessing the legacy of Mitch McConnell as a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, it’s important to include his large role in radically reducing the regulation of Americans’ political speech. Cato’s John Samples explains.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission
9 mei 2025 · 16 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
Civil disobedience may be the only avenue left for millions of Americans who just want to go about their business undisturbed. Charles Murray explains his dangerous idea in the new book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Communicating Economics in Troubled Times
8 mei 2025 · 8 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Repeal the 17th Amendment?
7 mei 2025 · 11 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Rights, Powers and the Libertarian Vision
6 mei 2025 · 14 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: POTUS as Chief Magistrate
5 mei 2025 · 10 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex
2 mei 2025 · 13 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
1 mei 2025 · 10 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
30 april 2025 · 27 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
Don’t talk to the police, even if you want to help them solve a crime. James Duane says that’s the advice police and lawyers give their own children. He explains why in his new book, You Have the Right to Remain Innocent.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Taking Back Congressional Power over Tariffs and Trade
29 april 2025 · 24 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
The freedom to trade is morally good. Congress has sadly delegated many of its powers over trade to the White House. That poses particular risks today. Senator Rand Paul (R‑KY) discusses his efforts at reclaiming legislative power over trade.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Women Are More Than Their Interactions with the State
28 april 2025 · 10 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
As many voters are licking their wounds after failing to elect the first female U.S. President, Anthony Comegna talks about how the important historical role of women on behalf of liberty is more than mere interactions with the state.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
25 april 2025 · 29 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
Why have five or more children? Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk details the stories and reasoning of dozens of women who have gone well beyond replacement-level fertility.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Smoot-Hawley 81 Years Later
24 april 2025 · 9 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Asserting Liberty and the Power of ‘No’
23 april 2025 · 34 min
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Lees meer
In the long history of the ebb and flow of liberty, some examples stand out. Jim Otteson of Wake Forest University offered a few of those examples at Cato Club 200.
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Caleb O. Brown Bids Farewell to the Cato Daily Podcast
22 april 2025 · 44 min
Caleb O. Brown has hosted the Cato Daily Podcast since 2007, CatoAudio since 2008, and all told has created several thousand interviews, videos, and other pieces for the Cato Institute. On his final episode, he is interviewed by Cato's Deirdre McCloskey about the art of the interview and his pending move to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. Lees meer
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Threats to Migrants' Speech Threaten Americans' Speech
21 april 2025 · 8 min
It should come as no surprise to learn that when some people in the US are targeted for their speech, it does no service to your right to speak freely. David Bier and Tommy Berry explain why immigration crackdowns triggered by speech are so dangerous. Lees meer
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Court Orders and Administration Responses on Illegal Deportations
18 april 2025 · 10 min
El Salvador is receiving prisoners snatched by the US federal government. The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of one prisoner. Ilya Somin details some of the more troubling aspects of this struggle. We spoke April 11, 2025. Lees meer
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Meta on Trial
17 april 2025 · 14 min
Meta's trial for alleged monopolistic practices could change how mergers get done and if they get done. Cato's Jennifer Huddleston and CEI's Alex Reinauer comment. Lees meer
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A Lawsuit to End 'Liberation Day' Tariffs
16 april 2025 · 11 min
The so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs use emergency powers from a statute that makes no mention of tariffs. Ilya Somin explains why that's one reason the tariffs are on shaky legal/constitutional ground and why a new lawsuit is challenging them. Lees meer
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End Federal Withholding to Clarify What Government Takes
15 april 2025 · 13 min
Federal withholding may among the most insidious of government policies. It hides the full scale of what government takes from us, and makes you feel like you're getting a bonus when you get your own money back. Cato’s Adam Michel makes the case. Lees meer
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Taxpayers Like Their Special Handouts, Dislike Yours
14 april 2025 · 10 min
Cato's Adam Michel ran a bracket of the worst offenders among "tax expenditures," or special benefits for some taxpayers. Turns out people like their own tax benefits and dislike the ones that benefit someone else. Lees meer
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Free Trade Didn’t Kill the Middle Class
11 april 2025 · 12 min
The case for tariffs hinges critically on a misunderstanding of the relevant data. Contrary to the claims from the President and Vice President, free trade has substantially enriched most Americans. Cato's Norbert Michel counters the false rhetoric. Lees meer
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Bad Arguments for Terrible Tariffs
10 april 2025 · 11 min
The arguments for tariffs lack the kind of useful perspective provided by a basic economics course. Cato's Colin Grabow picks them apart. Lees meer
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Governments That Pursue Tariffs Are Terrible Role Models
9 april 2025 · 10 min
The tariff policies dubiously adopted by President Trump have echoes of previous authoritarian governments. Ian Vasquez explains. Lees meer
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The 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Aren't Reciprocal and Other Reasons They Don't Make Sense
8 april 2025 · 14 min
There are several errors, misconceptions, and confusing assumptions that went into the creation of Donald Trump's new wealth-destroying tariff regime. Scott Lincicome explains a few of them. Lees meer
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Don’t Ask the Fed to Fix Bad Trade Policy
7 april 2025 · 10 min
The Federal Reserve can blunt the impact of a good deal of politically driven economic mischief. What about the new punitive tariff regime from the President? Jai Kedia suggests that you not get your hopes up. Lees meer
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The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley Through Eisenhower
4 april 2025 · 55 min
With respect to the substantial federal power to repress and surveil Americans, how did we get here? Patrick Eddington provides the first part of the story in The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley Through Eisenhower. Lees meer
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Is Rooftop Solar a Threat to Stable Electricity?
3 april 2025 · 23 min
Big energy facilities make the grid more stable, but rooftop solar reduces the need for those plants. Regulators have a hard time negotiating the tension. Economist Lynne Kiesling comments. Lees meer
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Challenge Your Narrative & Confront Uncomfortable History
2 april 2025 · 12 min
History can be a weapon. Obscuring inconvenient history can be a weapon. And Left and Right are both guilty of it. Phil Magness provides some helpful examples. Lees meer
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Tribalism is Dumb: Where It Came from, How It Got so Bad, and What to Do About It
1 april 2025 · 21 min
It's become easier to hate those with whom we disagree on matters of policy and politics, and our ideological tribes insulate us from thoughtful challenge. Andrew Heaton hopes to help you navigate a coarsening culture with his book, Tribalism is Dumb. Lees meer
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The Crisis of Dependency: How Our Efforts to Solve Poverty Are Trapping People in It and What We Can Do to Foster Freedom Instead
31 maart 2025 · 18 min
Government-administered aid to the poor is routinely wasted. Many well-intended charitable programs undermine self-determination and fail to restore dignity. James Whitford discusses a new way to think about poverty and its alleviation in The Crisis of Dependency. Lees meer
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State Licensing Reform Liberates Workers
28 maart 2025 · 13 min
Several states have recently moved ahead with recognizing occupational licenses issued elsewhere. Ed Timmons explains what it means for employment, worker mobility, and consumer welfare. Lees meer
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The 'How' of Ending the US Department of Education
27 maart 2025 · 11 min
Ending the US Department of Education is an important policy goal that appears closer than ever, and it should occur both within the bounds of the US Constitution and as soon as possible. Tommy Berry and Neal McCluskey comment. Lees meer
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Government Dietary Advice and the New Alcohol Prohibitionists
26 maart 2025 · 19 min
A late change by President Biden in how alcohol is treated in dietary guidance will mean more finger wagging from health officials. The change highlights the problem of government health advice. Eric Boehm of Reason and Cato's Jeff Singer comment. Lees meer
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Trump-Era Financial Surveillance Aims to Track Small Transactions
25 maart 2025 · 14 min
Under the guise of targeting illegal immigration, the Trump administration is moving to curtail Americans' financial privacy even further. Nick Anthony explains how. Lees meer
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Administrative Courts and Presidential Deportations
24 maart 2025 · 18 min
They’re not real courtrooms, of course, but administrative courts are being used in the context of immigration. What is their role in adjudicating immigration issues? David Bier and Will Yeatman comment. Lees meer
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Pharmacists Can Do Much More; States Should Let Them
21 maart 2025 · 11 min
Pharmacists regularly help patients navigate both prescriptions and physicians’ advice, but they can do more. A few states have begun to recognize their capabilities that have otherwise largely gone untapped. Alicia Plemmons of the Knee Regulatory Research Center comments. Lees meer
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The Phony Invasion at the Heart of Trump's Deportations under the Alien Enemies Act
20 maart 2025 · 15 min
Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to whisk alleged gang members to an El Salvador prison should not be allowed to stand for a variety of reasons. Ilya Somin explains why it might put Americans at risk. Lees meer
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Terrorism and Immigration 1975–2024
19 maart 2025 · 13 min
The federal government’s security resources should be allocated to the most efficient means of reducing the costs of terrorism. Alex Nowrasteh details a new paper. Lees meer
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By Targeting Certain Law Firms, the President Is Threatening the Constitution
18 maart 2025 · 13 min
President Trump has issued executive orders targeting law firms that have represented his opponents in court. It strikes at the heart of several constitutional protections. Walter Olson and Mike Fox comment. Lees meer
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