Podcast Episodes

The Dissident Project Brings Escapees from Authoritarians to American High Schools

The Dissident Project’s speakers travel to high schools to speak to students about authoritarianism, drawing on their own experience living under aut…

3 years, 2 months ago

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance

David Beito is author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.

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3 years, 2 months ago

An Assessment of #StopCopCity and Training Centers for 'Urban Combat' Policing

Atlanta's Cop City represents an expansion of police training to include more potential "urban combat" scenarios. At least one Cop City protestor has…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Impossibility of Policy

What makes for good rules? Good rules are often "discovered," according to Cato's Deirdre McCloskey.

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3 years, 2 months ago

New Attempts to Reform Rules for Accredited Investors

Accredited investors are supposed to be sophisticated, but the designation is rooted in the size of your portfolio and not your expertise. Jennifer S…

3 years, 2 months ago

Defuse the Culture War with Liberated Education

The only way to treat all equally, while advancing genuine tolerance, is the good old American value of limited government. Mustafa Alkyl and Neal Mc…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Bank Secrecy Act Delivers A Lopsided Privacy Tradeoff

The Bank Secrecy Act requires your financial institutions to snitch on you every time you engage in certain kinds of financial transactions. What's t…

3 years, 2 months ago

SCOTUS Nixes Souped-Up Independent State Legislature Theory

The Supreme Court shot down an extreme version of a relatively new theory of state legislative independence in the context of elections. Walter Olson…

3 years, 2 months ago

Big Taxpayer Bucks for Buc-ee's

Buc-ee's has garnered a reputation as an oasis for the weary traveler, but should taxpayers have to support it financially? Cato's Marc Joffe and Joh…

3 years, 2 months ago

Congressional Democrats Keep Pushing This One Big Tax Deduction

The state and local tax deduction has been curtailed, but many Congressional Democrats wish it would come back in full force. Cato's Adam Michel comm…

3 years, 2 months ago