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May 1, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
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.
Featuring David Rittgers and Caleb O. Brown
April 30, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
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.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.
Featuring James Duane and Caleb O. Brown
April 29, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Taking Back Congressional Power over Tariffs and Trade
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.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.
Featuring Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Caleb O. Brown
April 28, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Women Are More Than Their Interactions with the State
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.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 stat
Featuring Anthony Comegna and Caleb O. Brown
April 25, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
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.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.
Featuring Catherine Pakaluk and Caleb O. Brown
April 24, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Smoot-Hawley 81 Years Later
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.
Featuring Douglas Irwin and Caleb O. Brown
April 23, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Asserting Liberty and the Power of ‘No’
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.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.
Featuring James R. Otteson and Caleb O. Brown
April 22, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Caleb O. Brown Bids Farewell to the Cato Daily Podcast
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.
Featuring Deirdre N. McCloskey and Caleb O. Brown
April 21, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Threats to Migrants’ Speech Threaten Americans’ Speech
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.
Featuring David J. Bier, Thomas A. Berry, and Caleb O. Brown
April 18, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Court Orders and Administration Responses on Illegal Deportations
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.
Featuring Ilya Somin and Caleb O. Brown
April 17, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Meta on Trial
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.
Featuring Jennifer Huddleston, Alex Reinauer, and Caleb O. Brown
April 16, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

A Lawsuit to End ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
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.
Featuring Ilya Somin and Caleb O. Brown
April 15, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

End Federal Withholding to Clarify What Government Takes
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.
Featuring Adam N. Michel and Caleb O. Brown
April 14, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Taxpayers Like Their Special Handouts, Dislike Yours
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.
Featuring Adam N. Michel and Caleb O. Brown
April 11, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Free Trade Didn’t Kill the Middle Class
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.
Featuring Norbert Michel and Caleb O. Brown