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Cato Podcast
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...
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Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution
According to recent government data, immigration enforcement has become a much more dangerous job. David Bier and Patrick Eddington discuss the policy...
Trump Universities?
President Trump’s new “Compact with Academia” aims to reshape higher ed using the leverage of federal funds. Our panel unpacks the constitutional risk...
Protecting Expression in Crisis
Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason and co-host of The Hill's Rising, join's Cato's Thomas A. Berry and David Inserra to discuss the state of free sp...
Shutdowns and Shadow Dockets
The federal government shuts down as the Supreme Court returns. Our panel looks at the Trump team’s plan to use the shutdown for mass layoffs —and pre...
Doing It the Hard Way
FCC chair Brendan Carr’s “easy way or hard way” threat to TV broadcasters lit a censorship firestorm this week. Our Cato panel digs into the governmen...
SEC Commissioner Challenges Financial Surveillance
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins Jennifer Schulp and Cato's Norbert Michel to discuss how government financial surveillance has eroded Americans'...
Free Speech and Domestic Tranquility
Are Americans becoming dangerously tolerant of political violence? After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, our Cato panel looks at trends in public opinio...
The Rise of University Administration
When Syracuse University forced its social work faculty to partner with a for-profit corporation that takes two-thirds of online tuition revenue, prof...
The Purse and the Sword
This week, Congress returns to looming shutdowns and a “pocket-rescission” power grab. Abroad, President Trump pushes “America First” by rebranding th...
Cato Cage Match: Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy
Norbert Michel and Dominic Lett square off over whether fiscal or monetary policy is the bigger mess. Lett highlights how entitlement programs like So...
First, Do No Harm
What should “public health in a free society” look like, and what limits should courts impose on executive trade powers? This week’s panel covers the...
Righting the Endangerment Finding
Join Cato's Alex Nowrasteh and Travis Fisher as they unpack a pivotal moment in climate policy reform. The duo explores Fisher's tenure at the Departm...
High-Stakes Intel
"Golden shares” at home, grand bargains abroad. In this episode, Cato scholars weigh Trump’s push for equity stakes in U.S. firms under the CHIPS Act...
TikTok: Free Speech or Security Threat?
Cato’s Jennifer Huddleston and Tommy Berry examine the 2024 TikTok divest-or-ban law and what it means for Americans. They explain how the law could r...
Capital Punishments
As President Trump’s “crime emergency” puts troops on D.C.’s streets, socialist Zohran Mamdani surges ahead in the New York mayoral race. On the panel...
Trade, Power, and Tension: The U.S.-China Story
Justin Logan and Clark Packard break down the twists and turns of the U.S.-China relationship—from trade liberalization and consumer benefits to lost...
Summits, Guns, and Money
As President Trump pushes to unwind one proxy war—with Russia in Ukraine—he’s ramping up another in this hemisphere: ordering the Pentagon to ready ba...
From Risk to Innovation: Analyzing Trump's New AI Action Plan
In this episode, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy Jennifer Huddleston and Technology Policy Research Fellow Matthew Mittelsteadt break down...
Offers You’d Better Not Refuse
Last week, President Trump ramped up pressure on two favorite targets: elite universities and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. In the “War on Woke U,” the adm...
Atomic Economics
Peter Van Doren and David Kemp bring libertarian skepticism to the bipartisan political support for nuclear power. They analyze why regulatory reform...
One and a Half Cheers for SCOTUS
Cato's Clark Neily and Mike Fox give the most recent SCOTUS term a B- grade on criminal law. While they celebrate some unanimous victories like Barnes...
SCOTUS Roundup
Thomas A. Berry and Brent Skorup analyze five major Supreme Court cases from the recently concluded term, describing it as a "mixed bag" with more gov...
The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful
Adam Michel, Michael Cannon, and Dominik Lett break down the One Big Beautiful Bill. Is it $3.4 trillion, or actually $6 trillion? Is Medicaid getting...
Cato Cage Match: Education vs. Health Care
Michael F. Cannon and Neal McCluskey let us listen in on their ongoing 20-year debate over who has the more difficult job -- fixing health care or edu...
Aimless Rivalry: U.S. and China in the Middle East
Justin Logan and Jon Hoffman delve into Hoffman's latest policy analysis, "Aimless Rivalry: The Futility of U.S. China Competition in the Middle East....
Stablecoins and the Fight for a Level Playing Field
What are stablecoins, how do they work, and what does the future hold for these innovative financial instruments? Join Norbert Michel and Jennifer Sch...
The Rise and Fall of DOGE 1.0
In this episode, Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne delve into the intriguing journey of Doge 1.0 under Donald Trump's administration. From Elon Musk's am...
Misinformation in the Age of AI
Is misinformation really a new crisis—or just the latest chapter in a centuries-old debate over truth, speech, and power? In this episode, Cato Instit...
The Illusion of Financial Privacy
Is your financial life really private? In this eye-opening episode, Cato Institute's Norbert Michel and Nicholas Anthony take us deep into the world o...
One Big Beautiful Podcast
In this episode, Cato Institute's Scott Lincicome and Adam Michel dive deep into the sweeping new legislation—dubbed "The One Big Beautiful Bill"—movi...
An Announcement from the Cato Institute
Starting July 1, we’ll be trying some new things on this feed, starting with conversations between Cato Institute scholars. We hope you’ll join us. Pl...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Would-Be Home Distiller Fights Back in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Converting Vacant Commercial Property a Housing Solution?
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: When Lawmakers Don’t Make the Laws (State Government Edition)
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Why Do Rights-Violating University Officials Get Qualified Immunity?
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Psychedelics and the Advance of Cognitive Liberty
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Don’t Stop Impeachin’
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: What's the Benefit of Religious Charter Schools?
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 Insti...
Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Nat Hentoff
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 Insti...