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2008
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism (5/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Bill Kauffman, with comments by Michael Tomasky, Editor, Guardian America. Moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.
Taxation in Colonial America (5/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Moderated by Chris Edwards, Cato Institute.
The REAL ID Rebellion: Whither the National ID Law? (5/7/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina and Jon Tester, Democratic U.S. Senator from Montana. Moderated by Jim Harper, Cato Institute.
The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (5/6/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, and William Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice, with comments by Lyle Denniston, Supreme Court Correspondent for SCOTUSblog. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.
Is the Grass Really Greener? A Look at International Health Care Systems (5/5/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair, Harvard Business School, and Hugh Waters, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (5/1/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, with comments by Terrence Chorvat, George Mason University Law School and Will Wilkinson, Cato Institute.
Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice (4/23/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Eric Lichtblau, New York Times. Moderated by Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute.
What to Do about Self-Funded Campaigns (4/21/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, and Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Center for Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute.
Highly Skilled Immigrants: Opening the Doors to Prosperity (4/17/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) and
Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Markets vs. Standards: Debating the Future of American Education (4/16/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Gary Huggins, Director, Commission on No Child Left Behind, Aspen Institute; Andrew Coulson, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and John Merrifield, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio. Moderated by
Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow in Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Trade-Offs: Why the Colombia FTA Should Pass Regardless of TAA (4/11/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
America's Drive for Energy Independence: Fueling the Oil Price Boom? (4/9/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring A. F. Alhajji, Associate Professor at the College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University.
Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute.
Let Failing African Governments Collapse: A Radical Solution to Underdevelopment (4/2/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies; George Ayittey, Professor of Economics, American University; and Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Economic Collapse and Political Repression in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (3/24/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Walter H. Kansteiner, Principal, Scowcroft Group Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Carol Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State; and Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Cato Institute.
Why the Supreme Court Matters in a Presidential Election Year (3/19/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Patrick Garry, University of South Dakota Law School; with comments by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute, and Abe Krash, Georgetown University Law Center and Arnold & Porter LLP; moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute.
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence" (3/18/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Robert Bryce, Managing Editor, Energy Tribune. Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute.
Hayekian Insights on Economic Development (3/18/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, with comments by Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Moderator Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost — And How It Can Find Its Way Back (3/13/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Mickey Edwards, Former Member of Congress; Former Chairman, American Conservative Union; Lecturer, Princeton University; with comments by Edward Crane, President, Cato Institute.
The Venezuelan Student Movement for Liberty (3/12/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Yon Goicoechea, Former General Secretary, Venezuelan Student Parliament; Gustavo Tovar, Author, Estudiantes por la libertad (Students for Liberty) (Caracas: El Nacional, 2007); and Gerver Torres, Senior Scientist, Gallup. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 (3/11/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Walter A. McDougall,
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; with comments by Herman Belz, Professor of History, University of Maryland; and Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property (3/6/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Richard A. Epstein James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, with comments by J. Peter Byrne, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Freeing SpeechNow: Free Speech and Association vs. Campaign Finance Regulation (3/5/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Steve Simpson, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; David Keating, President, SpeechNow.org; and Michael Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute.
Market Reforms and Reelection: Are They Compatible? (3/4/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Johnny Munkhammar, Senior Fellow, European Enterprise Institute, with comments by Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader, Chairman, FreedomWorks.
What to Do about Climate Change (2/29/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Indur Goklany, author of The Improving State of the World and a new Cato study, “What to Do about Climate Change,” and delegate to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, and contributing author and reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Race and the State (2/27/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Bartlett, Author, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past and Casey Lartigue, President, Lartigue Group.
Human Organs for Sale? (2/21/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. Featuring: Arthur Matas, Professor of Surgery; Director, Kidney Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Immediate Past President, American Society of Transplant Surgeons; Francis Delmonico, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, The Transplantation Society; World Health Organization; Benjamin Hippen, Transplant Nephrologist, Carolinas Medical Center, At-Large Member of the United Network for Organ Sharing Ethics Committee; and Samuel Crowe, Senior Policy Analyst, The President's Council on Bioethics.
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (2/19/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Alan Pell Crawford.
Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (2/14/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Richard Lugar, (R-IN), and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
20th Annual Benefactor Summit (2/6-10/08)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
Economic Stimulus: Facts and Fiction (2/4/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
NATO's New Troubles: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Future of the Alliance (1/31/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Stanley Kober, Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Susan Eisenhower, Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute; Lawrence S. Kaplan, Emeritus Director of the Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University; Jeremy Shapiro, Fellow and Director of Research, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution.
The Best-Laid Plans: Congress Should Repeal Planning Requirements in Federal Surface Transportation Law (1/25/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author of The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future, and Ronald Utt, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
The Mind of the Market: The Case for Capitalism from an Evolutionary Perspective (1/11/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Michael Shermer.
McCain: The Myth of a Maverick (1/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Matt Welch, Editor-in-Chief, Reason Magazine, and Lance Tarrance, Jr., Former Senior Strategist, McCain for President.
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 and Before
The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
Book Forum (5/6/08)
What to Do about Self-Funded Campaigns
Capitol Hill Briefing (4/21/08)
Highly Skilled Immigrants: Opening the Doors to Prosperity
Capitol Hill Briefing (4/17/08)
America's Drive for Energy Independence: Fueling the Oil Price Boom?
Policy Forum (4/9/08)