Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSchool Choice and Democracy: Friends or Foes?
One of the fundamental historical arguments for traditional public schooling is that compulsory common schools are necessary for a stable democratic …
8 years, 9 months ago
A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should …
8 years, 9 months ago
The Search for Truth in Regulatory Science
One basis of modern medicine is that low doses of many chemicals are beneficial, while higher ones are toxic. And yet a great disparity has evolved w…
8 years, 10 months ago
The Three Languages of Politics
Political communication can be described as the use of three separate “languages”: progressive, conservative and libertarian. Each serves to reinforc…
8 years, 10 months ago
Ayn Rand’s, We the Living
Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living, is a captivating story set in 1920s Russia about students trapped in a communist state. As Rand said…
8 years, 10 months ago
Should Every School Serve Everyone?
“Discrimination” has a terrible connotation — excluding or treating people differently for ultimately superficial reasons — and fear that choice prog…
8 years, 10 months ago
A “Modern Plague”? How the Federal Government Should Address the Opioid Crisis
According to a recent New York Times analysis, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under age 50. Driving this…
8 years, 10 months ago
#CatoConnects: Findings from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group
The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, a new research collaboration of nearly two dozen analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum, rece…
8 years, 11 months ago
South Africa at a Crossroad: Will Growing Opposition Remove the African National Congress from Power?
Following stunning losses by the once hegemonic African National Congress in 2016 local elections, Herman Mashaba, a successful businessman and polit…
8 years, 11 months ago
Financial Crisis and Reform: Have We Done Enough to Fix the Government-Sponsored Enterprises?
While there is an ongoing debate about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, there is little disagreement that the housing market was at the heart o…
8 years, 11 months ago