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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 in...

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Episodes (4856)

The Strait of Hormuz and the Price of War

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Mar 10, 202626:24completed

Unlawful Voting Is a Tiny Problem

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Mar 5, 202636:01pending

War Powers and the Road to Iran

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Mar 3, 202630:36pending

Rhetoric vs. Reality in the State of the Union

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Feb 26, 202640:42pending

Who Decides When America Goes to War?

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Feb 24, 202636:12pending

No Tax on Tips, New Tax on Billionaires?

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Feb 20, 202641:24pending

Ed Crane and the Ideas That Changed Washington — and the World

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Feb 17, 202635:42pending

Raging Against Modernity

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Feb 12, 202640:48pending

Why Globalization Wins on the Field

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Feb 10, 202638:31pending

Protest, Carry, Die: Rights in Conflict

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Feb 5, 202639:47pending

Reforming the Federal Reserve, Brick by Brick

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Feb 3, 202627:58pending

Why Propping Up Maduro’s Allies Won’t Save Venezuela

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Jan 29, 202629:47pending

History Makes Clear: School Choice Is Necessary in a Diverse Society

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Jan 27, 202650:51pending

Iran on the Brink: Another Middle East War in the Making?

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Jan 22, 202630:34pending

What’s Missing from the White House’s Health Care Plan

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Jan 20, 202629:35pending

Fallout From the Minnesota Fraud Scandal

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Jan 15, 202629:06pending

Free Markets for Electricity

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Jan 13, 202644:25pending

When Presidents Decide to Go to War Alone: Venezuela Edition

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Jan 8, 202628:55pending

Debanked for Dissent: How Putin’s Reach Extends Abroad

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Jan 6, 202637:24pending

Banking on Moral Hazard: The Push for $10 Million Deposit Insurance

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Jan 1, 202634:19pending

Australia’s Social Media Ban and the Illusion of Online Safety

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Dec 30, 202539:05pending

How Fuel Economy Rules Made Cars Bigger, Pricier, and Less Safe

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Dec 23, 202540:29pending

Social Security’s Popularity Problem

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Dec 18, 202533:09pending

The Global Freedom Slump

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Dec 16, 202535:58pending

Better Care for Billions Less: Fixing Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Incentives

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Dec 11, 202545:11pending

Strategy Without Strategy: Inside the New NSS

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Dec 9, 202539:24pending

Repeal Day: Alcohol Prohibition and the Hypocrisy of the Drug War

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Dec 4, 202531:04pending

NIH's Lost Mission

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Dec 2, 202537:15pending

Superabundance at Thanksgiving

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Nov 26, 202536:07pending

Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics

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Nov 25, 202537:34pending

The Disaster Aid System: How FEMA Rewards Risk

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Nov 20, 202529:22pending

The Shutdown That Solved Nothing

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Nov 18, 202532:16pending

Don’t Do It, Mr. President: The Prospect of a US War in Venezuela

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Nov 13, 202531:36pending

The Supreme Court’s $300 Billion Tariff Showdown

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Nov 11, 202539:22pending

What a Long Shutdown It's Been

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Nov 5, 202534:01pending

The $650,000 Question: How Steel Protectionism Fails

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Nov 4, 202538:11pending

Five* Types of Innovative "Schools"

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Oct 30, 202540:49pending

Political Pressure and Monetary Policy

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Oct 28, 202532:26pending

Feeding AI's Energy Appetite

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Oct 21, 202529:00pending

Peace President?

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Oct 16, 202547:17pending

Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution

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Oct 14, 202532:03pending

Trump Universities?

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Oct 9, 202545:30pending

Protecting Expression in Crisis

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Oct 7, 202531:10pending

Shutdowns and Shadow Dockets

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Oct 2, 202546:40pending

How Government Shutdowns Actually Work

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Sep 30, 202543:28pending

Doing It the Hard Way

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Sep 25, 202545:25pending

SEC Commissioner Challenges Financial Surveillance

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Sep 23, 202535:20pending

Free Speech and Domestic Tranquility

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Sep 18, 202545:31pending

The Rise of University Administration

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Sep 16, 202531:01pending

The Purse and the Sword

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Sep 11, 202547:17pending
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