Cato Events Podcast

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Cato Events Podcast episodes

March 12, 2025 Cato Club Connects March 10, 2025
Gene and Clark will discuss the Trump administration’s actions since the inauguration—including executive orders, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), pardons, and the role of the courts. There’s been no shortage of headlines, which can all seem overwhelming. We’ll walk through the principled view libertarians should consider—from the bright spots that advance liberty without shredding the Constitution to dangerous growth in executive power. We’ll also update you on how we’re engaging the administration and Congress with our solutions (including our report to DOGE) while also pushing back.
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52 min
March 11, 2025 Social Media and Youth Mental Health: A Civic Learning Week Conversation
In recent years, calls to limit, regulate, or ban social media platforms have escalated from all corners of the political spectrum. These concerns have been as varied as national security, foreign ownership, and the danger of disinformation in a divided democracy. Yet perhaps the most cross‐partisan concern has come from increasing evidence of social media’s detrimental impact on youth mental health. Join Sphere Education Initiatives on March 10 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for a timely webinar on social media and youth mental health featuring Jennifer Huddleston, senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute, and Clare Morrell, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Offered during Civic Learning Week, which runs March 10–14 this year, this webinar seeks to highlight “the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that provide the foundation for an informed and engaged populace.” For more information about Civic Learning Week, visit civiclearningweek.org.
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1 hr 1 min
March 06, 2025 Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society
In conventional political debate—particularly in Washington, DC—“law” is understood as top-down legislation: rules consciously designed and imposed by central authorities. John Hasnas challenges this unspoken assumption, pointing to the Anglo-American common law, a decentralized, continually evolving system that produces order without conscious design or political control. In his important new book, Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society, he offers a theory of liberalism that demonstrates that the common law can serve as an effective alternative to traditional politically created legislation. Hasnas’s thesis has implications ranging from modest (many government functions can be better supplied by the common law than by centralized legislation) to radical (if human beings do not need the state to make law, do they need the state at all?).

Please join us for a discussion of this provocative new book featuring the author and Professor David Schmidtz, director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at West Virginia University, moderated by Cato’s Gene Healy.
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1 hr 31 min
March 05, 2025 Internship Insights: Showing Initiative - Panel 2
Are you ready to secure your dream internship by showing more than just qualifications? Want to demonstrate your ability to take initiative, think independently, and be entrepreneurial in your projects? Join us for an engaging and interactive session where you’ll hear directly from current interns and application reviewers.

Highlights
Showcase Your Initiative: Learn how to frame your experiences to highlight independence, self-starting behavior, and innovative thinking—skills essential to standing out in your internship application. Discover what qualities we seek and how to demonstrate them effectively.
Tips and Tricks: Gain insights from application reviewers who will share what they look for in submissions to rise to the top.
Q&A Session: Bring your burning questions and get answers from a panel of program supervisors and scholars. Clarify any doubts you may have about the application process.
Success Stories: Hear inspiring stories from individuals who successfully secured a spot in the internship program and discover how they navigated the process.
Connect with Current Interns: Learn from current interns about the program and the experience.

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31 min
March 05, 2025 Internship Insights: Showing Initiative - Panel 1
Are you ready to secure your dream internship by showing more than just qualifications? Want to demonstrate your ability to take initiative, think independently, and be entrepreneurial in your projects? Join us for an engaging and interactive session where you’ll hear directly from current interns and application reviewers.

Highlights
Showcase Your Initiative: Learn how to frame your experiences to highlight independence, self-starting behavior, and innovative thinking—skills essential to standing out in your internship application. Discover what qualities we seek and how to demonstrate them effectively.
Tips and Tricks: Gain insights from application reviewers who will share what they look for in submissions to rise to the top.
Q&A Session: Bring your burning questions and get answers from a panel of program supervisors and scholars. Clarify any doubts you may have about the application process.
Success Stories: Hear inspiring stories from individuals who successfully secured a spot in the internship program and discover how they navigated the process.
Connect with Current Interns: Learn from current interns about the program and the experience.

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26 min
March 05, 2025 Why Argentina Must Still Dollarize
Argentine President Javier Milei came to power nearly a year ago on the campaign promise to abolish the central bank and dollarize his country’s economy. As part of his ambitious reform agenda, the government has eliminated fiscal deficits and significantly reduced public spending and inflation. Milei remains committed to dollarization but has not yet implemented that reform. Given the progress in stabilizing the economy, Emilio Ocampo, Alfredo Romano, and Nicolas Cachanosky will discuss why Argentina should not wait to replace the peso with the dollar. Drawing from regional experiences and Argentina’s own history, they will explain how carrying out such monetary reform sooner rather than later—along with lifting capital controls and freeing the exchange rate—would boost confidence in the Argentine economy and produce tangible economic and political benefits.
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1 hr 18 min
March 05, 2025 Presidential Tariff Powers and the Need for Reform
From the founding of the republic through the early 1930s, Congress set tariff rates through legislative revisions to the US tariff schedule. Low tariffs were initially imposed to raise revenue for the federal government, but tariffs became a tool to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. Today, Congress has broadly delegated its constitutional tariff powers to the president, and there is a real risk that the legislative and judicial branches would be unwilling or unable to check a future president’s abuse of US trade law as currently written.

In a recent briefing paper titled “Presidential Tariff Powers and the Need for Reform,” Cato scholars examine the current laws that might allow the president to impose broad tariffs without congressional input, as well as the reform options available to Congress for restoring balance between the legislative and executive branches.
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1 hr 19 min
March 04, 2025 Saving Academia: A Conversation with Rep. Burgess Owens
Higher education is at a crossroads. American universities are facing important questions about accountability and viability, including concerns about ideological influences, rising administrative costs, shifting academic expectations, and the growing challenge of student loan debt. But what are the underlying causes of these challenges, and how can we address them?

Join us for a thoughtful discussion with The Honorable Representative Burgess Owens, chairman of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, alongside Cato experts Erec Smith, PhD, and Andrew Gillen, PhD as they examine the challenges facing academia today and explore practical solutions for the future.
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1 hr 1 min
March 03, 2025 The Antitrust Case Against Occupational Licensing Boards
Occupational licensing boards today act like protectors of cartels, often going beyond merely issuing licenses to launching witch hunts and boxing out their competitors. February 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC. In that case, that state’s dental licensing board was ruled to be acting like a monopolist (using the power given to it by the state government) by trying to drive non-dentist teeth whiteners out of business. This policy forum will discuss the policy landscape that resulted from that decision and what it should mean for liberty-minded policymakers and litigators in the future.
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56 min
March 03, 2025 Defending Due Process Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World
In a Q&A, Brandon Garrett and Vikrant Reddy will discuss the new threats that due process faces and how we can respond by better safeguarding fundamental liberty and property rights. They will discuss why people are tempted to place outcomes before fairness—in society and in the courts. They will explore how new technology, including artificial intelligence, has created new threats to fairness and rights. And they will discuss how people, from judges to local community leaders, can find common ground around defending due process.
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1 hr 4 min

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