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2003
Iraq: Struggling Democracy or Rising Terrorism? (12/18/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Charles Peña, Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Collapse of Campaign Finance Regulation (12/17/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
The UN Deadline for a New Iraqi Government: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (12/16/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Kenneth Allard, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.); Charles Peña, Cato Institute; John Hulsman, Heritage Foundation; and Donald Devine, ConservativeBattleline.com.
What Is the Role for Markets in Electricity? (12/16/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Peter Van Doren, Editor, Regulation.
The State of Corporate Governance: A Retrospective on Sarbanes-Oxley (12/12/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; and Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Global Warming: The State of the Debate (12/12/03)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama at Huntsville; William Cline, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development; Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy and Professor of Economics, Yale University; and Thomas C. Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.
Nanotechnology: The Money, Science and Politics of the "Next Big Thing" (12/11-11/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Kevin D. Ausman, Executive Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University; Geoffrey Carr, Science and Technology Editor, The Economist; Wayne Crews, Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute; Eric Drexler, Chairman, Foresight Institute; Neil Jacobstein, Chairman, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing; and F. Mark Modzelewski, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance.
Combating Terrorism, Preserving Freedom (12/10/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring James Bovard, Author, Terrorism and Tyranny (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Philip B. Heymann, Author, Terrorism, Freedom, and Security (MIT Press, 2003).
You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (12/9/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author David E. Bernstein, George Mason University Law School; with comments by John Leo, U.S. News and World Report.
FDR’s Folly: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (12/3/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jim Powell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Michael Barone, Author, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan.
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (11/21/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Anna J. Schwartz, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Allan H. Meltzer, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; William Poole, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; and Laurence H. Meyer, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
21st Annual Monetary Conference: The Future of the Euro (11/20/03)
A Cato Institute Conference. Speakers include Alan Greenspan, James M. Buchanan, Vito Tanzi, Mickey Levy, George Tavlas, and Roland Vaubel, among others.
A New Era for Energy? (11/14/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Energy and Environmental Correspondent, The Economist and Author, Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003).
Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order (11/13/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John Newhouse, Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Information; with comments by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyberterrorism (11/12/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Dan Verton, with comments by George Smith, Senior Fellow, Globalsecurity.org and Coeditor, vmyths.com.
Cato Perspectives 2003 - New York (11/7/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Nadine Strossen, president, ACLU and Anne Applebaum, columnist and member of The Washington Post editorial board.
A Grand Strategy for America (11/3/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Robert J. Art, Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations, Brandeis University with comments by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies, Cato Institute.
Drug Reimportation: Time for a Free Market? (10/31/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND); and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
Where Were the Lawyers in Enron? (10/31/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tom Morgan, George Washington University Law School; Richard Painter, University of Illinois Law School; and Stanley Keller, Palmer & Dodge.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2003 - Dallas (10/29/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Robert D. McTeer Jr., President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (10/28/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise Institute.
Online Gambling: Lessons from the Internet and Bookmaking (10/23/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Koleman Strumpf, UNC Chapel Hill; Raymond Sauer, Clemson University; and Robin Hanson, George Mason University.
Technology and Society Conference: Who Rules the Net? (10/21/03)
A Cato Institute Conference. The Cato Institute’s 7th Annual Technology and Society Conference
Featuring Hon. Christopher Cox (R–Calif.), Chairman, House Policy Committee; and Jeffrey J. Kovar, U.S. Department of State Chief U. S. Negotiator, Hague Convention, and Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law.
Are We Exporting Our Jobs to India and China? (10/17/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies,
Cato Institute; and Harris Miller, President, Information Technology Association of America.
Liberty, Technology, and Prosperity Seminar (10/15/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. Cosponsored with The Economist
Telecom & Broadband after the Market Meltdown: New Rules for A New World?
Featuring Dorothy Attwood,Senior Vice President, Federal Regulatory Strategy SBC Communications; Vab Goel, Venture Partner, Norwest Venture Partners; and Bruce M. Owen, Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2003 - Chicago (10/9/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Robert Novak, nationally syndicated columnist; and Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel.
Regulations "R" U.S.? The State of the Regulatory State (10/3/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John D. Graham, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; David Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School; and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Director, Technology Policy, Cato Institute.
The Future of the U.S. Postal Service (10/2/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring Edward Hudgins,Objectivist Center/Cato Adjunct Scholar; Dennis Shea, Executive Director, Presidential Commission on the USPS; Murray Martin, Executive Vice President & Group President, Global Mailing Systems, Pitney Bowes; and Roger Kodat, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Government Financial Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
A Modern Vision for Latin America (9/30/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring John E. Sununu, U.S. Senate; Miguel Angel Rodríguez, Former President, Costa Rica; Manuel Suárez-Mier, Senior Economist, Bank of America, Mexico; Luis de Guindos, Deputy Minister, Ministry of the Economy, Spain; Enrique Ghersi, CITEL, Peru; Richard Pipes, Harvard University; Carlos Alberto Montaner, Spain; and Mario Vargas Llosa, President, International Foundation for Liberty.
Cancun Postmortem: What Next for the WTO? (9/29/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Christopher A. Padilla, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; R. Scott Miller, Director, National Government Relations, Procter & Gamble; Bruce Stokes, Columnist, National Journal; and Brink Lindsey, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (9/26/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Nat Hentoff, Columnist, Village Voice with comments by Paul Rosenzweig, Senior Research Fellow
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
The Heritage Foundation.
Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices: Are They Compatible? (9/25/03)
A Cato Institute Address featuring distinguished lecturer, Thomas Szasz.
Telecom & Broadband Outlook After the FCC’s UNE Triennial Review Decision (9/24/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tom Tauke, Verizon Communications; John Windhausen, Association for Local Telecommunications Services; Ray Gifford, Progress & Freedom Foundation; and John Malone, Eastern Management Group.
The Future of Liberalism in the European Union (9/23/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; Irwin Stelzer, Director of Economic Policy Studies, Hudson Institute; and Helen Szamuely, Director of Research, The Bruges Group.
Smallpox and Bioterrorism: The Threat, the Risks, and Why the Vaccination Plan Is Stalled (9/17/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring William J. Bicknell, M.D., Boston University School of Public Health; and Kenneth D. Bloem, Former CEO of Stanford University Hospital and Georgetown University Medical Center
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue A Look at the October 2002 and October 2003 Terms (9/17/03)
A Cato Institute Symposium. Speakers include Roger Pilon, Stuart Taylor Jr., Bradley A. Smith, James L. Swanson, David B. Sentelle, and Randy E. Barnett among others.
McCain-Lieberman on Global Warming: A Journey to Nowhere (9/12/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute and
Professor, University of Virginia.
Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny (9/10/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring coeditors Doug Bandow, Cato Institute; David Schindler, John Paul II Institute; and contributors
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute; and Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute
Will Internet Telephony Bring About a Revolution in Telecom Policy? (9/9/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring J. Scott Marcus, Federal Communications Commission; Link Hoewing, Verizon; Brad Ramsay, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Marilyn Cade, AT&T; and Jeff Pulver, Pulver.com.
The Road from Cancun to Free Trade in Manufactured Goods (9/5/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ernie Preeg, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI; Dan Griswold, Cato Institute; William Lane, Caterpillar Inc.; and Arvind Panagariya, University of Maryland.
In Defense of Global Capitalism (9/4/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Johan Norberg with comments by Bruce Stokes, Staff Correspondent, National Journal
Sustainable Development: One Year after the World Summit (9/3/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring Leon Louw, Free Market Foundation, South Africa; Indur Goklany, American Enterprise Institute; James Shikwati, Inter Region Economic Network, Kenya; Julian Morris, International Policy Network, Great Britain; Barun Mitra, Director of the Liberty Institute, India; and Thompson Ayodele, Institute for Public Policy Analysis, Nigeria.
The Market for Health Care and Health Insurance: Can the Government Improve It? (8/13/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Peter VanDoren, Editor, Regulation.
The Libertarian Vision of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (8/12/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
Do State Constitutions and Courts Still Protect Liberty? (8/8/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Justice Richard B. Sanders, Washington State Supreme Court.
Cato University Summer Seminar (8/2-8/03)
A Cato Institute Cato University featuring Randy Barnett, Charlotte Twight, David Hart, Marcus Cole, Robert McDonald, David Henderson, Hans Stein, R. J. Smith, and Tom G. Palmer.
Left, Right, and Wrong on Energy (7/25/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jerry Taylor, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute.
Medicare Reform: Will the House-Senate Conference Committee Save It or Sink It? (7/22/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.); and Tom Miller, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America (7/18/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ian Vásquez, Director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
Global Warming: The Always-Imminent Threat (7/11/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Patrick J. Michaels,
Cato Institute and University of Virginia, Author, The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming.
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (7/10/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Thomas Fleming.
What now for the EPA? (7/7/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Richard Stroup, Author, Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment (Cato Institute, 2003) .
Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations (7/7/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; Christopher Culp, Managing Director, CP Risk Management LLC; Fred L. Smith Jr., President, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Barbara Kavanagh, Principal, CP Risk Management LLC; Andrea Neves, Principal, CP Risk Management LLC; and Steve Hanke, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
The Supreme Court: An End of Term Review (7/2/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; Charles J. Cooper, Partner, Cooper & Kirk; Thomas Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Howe; Erik S. Jaffe, Erik S. Jaffe, P.C.; and Timothy Lynch, Director, Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice.
Innovations in Transportation Policy Applying Free-Market Reforms to the Highway, Amtrak, and FAA Reauthorization Bills (6/27/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Mark Kennedy (R-Minn.), Member, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; and Peter VanDoren, Editor, Regulation.
Rebuilding Iraq: Prospects for Freedom and Prosperity (6/26/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring Randal Quarles, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International, Author of Odious Debts; Irwin Stelzer, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Richard Rahn, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Radwan A. Masmoudi, President, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy; Michael Hudson, Georgetown University.
Can Free Trade Promote Peace in the Middle East? (6/20/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Manar Dabbas, First Secretary for Political and Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Jordan.
What's Right and Wrong About the Senate Medicare Bill? (6/20/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael O’Grady, Senior Health Economist, Joint Economic Committee; Tom Miller, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and John Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis.
The Passion and Practice of Liberty (6/19/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Tibor R. Machan, Author, The Passion for Liberty; and Philip D. Harvey, Author, Government Creep: What the Government Is Doing That You Don’t Know About.
Tax Limitation 25 Years after California's Proposition 13 (6/19/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Doug Ose, (R-Calif.); William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; Jon Coupal, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; Lewis Uhler, President, National Tax Limitation Committee; and Michael New, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Demonizing Drugmakers? The Political Assault on the Pharmaceutical Industry (6/18/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Michie Hunt, President, Hunt and Associates; Dan Mendelson, Managing Director and Founder, The Health Strategies Consultancy; and Scott Gottlieb, MD, Senior Advisor for Medical Techn ology, Office of the Commissioner Food and Drug Administration.
Canning Spam: Can We Shift the Cost of Unsolicited E-mail Back to Spammers? (6/13/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute; and Dave Baker, Vice President for Law and Public Policy, Earthlink.
Taxing the Internet: Questions for Governors and Legislators (6/11/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado.
Getting Out and Moving On: The Second Gulf War and Its Aftermath (6/10/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies; John Hulsman, Research Fellow, Davis Institute for International Policy Studies; Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Christopher Layne, Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Leon Hadar, Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; John Zogby, President and CEO, Zogby International; and Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S. Business and Industrial Council Educational Foundation.
Entitlement Spending Explosion: Implications for the Federal Budget, Taxpayers, and Young Americans (6/6/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Jagadeesh Gokhale, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; and Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2003 - New York (6/5/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Rep. Pat Toomey, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Susan Chamberlin, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute; Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute; Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International, Author, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The United States and Korea: Endless Entanglement or Crossroads for Change? (6/4/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Ed Olsen, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School; Bill Taylor, President, Taylor Associates International; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (5/29/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor, Reason; with comments by Sally Satel, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
Public Health and Private Rights: Communicable Diseases, Panic Attacks, and the Constitution (5/27/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School; George J. Annas, Boston University, School of Public Health; and Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins University.
Ashcroft’s U-Turn: Suing Big Tobacco for a Quarter-Trillion Bucks (5/21/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Matthew Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; William B. Schultz, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP; Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; and Kenneth N. Bass, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis.
Government Reform: Competitive Sourcing, Privitization, and Other Options (5/16/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Angela Styles, Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Geoffrey F. Segal, Director, Privatization and Government Reform Policy, Reason Foundation; and Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Educational Freedom and Urban America: Brown v. Board After Half a Century (5/15/03)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Howard Fuller, Marquette University; Rev. Floyd Flake, Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Former Congressman; Paul Peterson, Harvard University; and Andrew J. Coulson, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, among others.
The Campaign Finance Decision What Does It Mean and Where Do We Go from Here? (5/12/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Kenneth W. Starr, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell; Jan W. Baran, Partner, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, and counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell; Randolph D. Moss, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and counsel to congressional sponsors of the legislation, as defendant intervenors; and Trevor Potter, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale, and counsel to congressional sponsors of the legislation, as defendant intervenors.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2003 - Minneapolis (5/8/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Jason Lewis, Minnesota's "Mr. Right," and host of "The Jason Lewis Show;" Clint Bolick, Institute for Justice, and author, Voucher Wars; and Cato scholars Tom G. Palmer and Jerry Taylor
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy (5/7/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Jack M. Hollander, Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.
After Victory: A Strategy for Exiting the Persian Gulf (5/2/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Preble, Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Charles Peña, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Will Medicare Ever Graduate from Reform School? (4/25/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Tom Miller, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity (4/24/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor, Raghuram G. Rajan, Joseph Gidwitz Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; with comments by Kenneth Rogoff, Director of Research, International Monetary Fund; and Brink Lindsey, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Defense Transformation: Moving Forward or Stuck in the Past? (4/23/03)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference. A Cato Institute Conference featuring Baker Spring, Heritage Foundation; Winslow Wheeler, Center for Defense Information; Daniel Goure, Lexington Institute; and Dave McIntyre, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, among others.
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (4/22/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist; with comments by Daniel Yergin, Cambridge Energy Research Associates and Author, The Prize and The Comanding Heights.
Space: The Free-Market Frontier (4/16/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Edward L. Hudgins, The Objectivist Center and Editor, Space: The Free-Market Frontier (Cato Institute 2003); Buzz Aldrin, ShareSpace and Apollo XI Astronaut; James Muncy, PoliSpace; and Courtney Stadd, Chief of Staff, NASA.
You Can Fight City Hall: Ending the District of Columbia's Gun Ban (4/15/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Robert Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; and Gene Healy, Senior Editor, Cato Institute.
What's Up with the PATRIOT Act? Concerns about the Legislative Response to 9/11 and the Prospect of a PATRIOT II (4/14/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; and Jim Dempsey, Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology.
Is Islam Inherently Anti-American? (4/10/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad and Author, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality (Zed Books, 1991); with comments by Peter Bergen, Author, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden (Free Press, 2001).
Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization (4/3/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Surjit S. Bhalla, Oxus Research and Investments; with comments by Carol Graham, Vice President, Brookings Institution.
The Legal Significance of the Declaration of Independence (4/2/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Scott Douglas Gerber, Editor, The Declaration of Independence: Origins and Impact (CQ Press, 2002), Professor, Ohio Northern University ; with comments by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
The President's Faith-Based Initiative: Is It Constitutional? Is It a Good Idea? (3/28/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. Panel 1: Is It Constitutional?
Featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Director, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; and James Davids, Former Deputy Director, Task Force on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Department of Justice.
Panel 2: Is It a Good Idea? Featuring Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; and Joseph Loconte, Fellow in Religion and Free Society, Heritage Foundation.
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues (3/27/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coeditor, Daniel B. Klein; with comments by Jerry Ellig, Acting Director, Office of Policy Planning Federal Trade Commission; Donald Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University; and Robert Atkinson, Director of the Technology and New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2003 - Atlanta (3/21/03)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas (3/18/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Bruce Allen Murphy; with comments by James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
The Politics of the PTA (3/13/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Charlene Haar; with comments by Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; and Lori Yaklin, U.S. Department of Education.
Public and Private Regulation in Securities Markets: What Role for the Exchanges? (3/10/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Paul S. Atkins, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission; Paul G. Mahoney, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, University of Virginia School of Law; and William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
Welfare Reform: A Look Back, a Look Ahead (3/4/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution; June O’Neill, Baruch College; Deborah Weinstein, Children’s Defense Fund; and Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures (3/4/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Tyler Cowen, George Mason University; with comments by Benjamin Barber, The Democracy Collaborative University of Maryland.
The Supreme Court at Midterm (2/25/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Thomas Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Howe; Erik S. Jaffe, Erik S. Jaffe, P.C; and James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government (2/24/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Randall G. Holcombe; with comments by Dennis Coyle, Catholic University of America; and Joseph Romance, Drew University.
The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education (2/24/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Peter Brimelow; with comments by Jay Mathews, Washington Post.
Social Security University (2/19-19/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice, and Andrew Biggs, Social Security analyst, Cato Institute, and former staffer to the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.
The President's Tax Cuts for Dividends and Personal Saving (2/14/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Eric Engen, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Steve Entin, President, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation; Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Chris Edwards, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
School Choice and Special Ed: Extending Choice and Opportunity to Children With Disabilities (2/13/03)
A Cato Institute Conference. featuring Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho); Robert Pasternack, Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, U.S. Department of Education; Jay Greene, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and David Salisbury, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century (2/12/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Bill Emmott, Editor in Chief, The Economist.
First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life (2/11/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring the author, Kenneth W. Starr; with comments by James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
Technology Policy in the 108th Congress (2/7/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Steve Delbianco, Association for Competitive Technology; Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Cato Institute; and Adam Thierer, Cato Institute.
Battle Over the Broadcast Flag: The IP Wars and the HDTV Transition (2/5/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Fritz Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America; Jim Burger, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; Mike Godwin, Public Knowledge; and Andy Setos, Fox Entertainment Group.
Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (1/30/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis.; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kans.; and Dan Griswold, Cato Institute.
Internet Cents and Nonsense: Lessons from the Dot-Com Collapse and the Copyright Wars (1/29/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Stan Liebowitz, Author, Rethinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace (Amacom, 2002); with comments by John Lott, American Enterprise Institute; and Tom Lenard, Progress and Freedom Foundation.
What Should the United States Do about North and South Korea? (1/24/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Author, Peace and Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic and Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies ; and Doug Bandow, Author, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
How to Protect Property Rights, the Environment, and the Constitution (1/17/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies.
The Case Against Lawyers (1/16/03)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Catherine Crier, Host, “Catherine Crier Live,” Court TV.
Free Trade with Chile: Understanding What's at Stake (1/13/03)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Regina Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas; and Hernán Büchi, Former Minister of Finance, Chile.
A New and Improved Health Policy Agenda for 2003 (1/9/03)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Tom Miller, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Jeff Lemieux, Senior Economist, Progressive Policy Institute.
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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)