Follow the link below to watch the full event, including Q&A: http://www.cato.org/events/quit-bubble-wrapping-our-kids-0 Featuring Lenore Skenazy, Founder, Free-Range Kids; author; and host of the TV series "World's Worst Mom" (Discovery/TLC); moderated and with comments by Walter Olson, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. Our children are in constant danger from — to quote Lenore Skenazy's list — "kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and/or the perils of a non-organic grape." Or so a small army of experts and government policymakers keep insisting. School authorities punish kids for hugging a friend, pointing a finger as a pretend gun, or starting a game of tag on the playground. Congress bans starter bikes on the chance that some 12-year-old might chew on a brass valve. Police arrest parents for leaving a sleepy kid alone in the back seat of a car for a few minutes. Yet overprotectiveness creates perils of its own. It robs kids not only of fun and sociability but of the joy of learning independence and adult skills, whether it be walking a city street by themselves or using a knife to cut their own sandwich. No one has written more provocatively about these issues than Lenore Skenazy, a journalist with the former New York Sun who now contributes frequently to the Wall Street Journal and runs the popular Free-Range Kids website where she promotes ideas like "Take Your Kids to the Park and Leave Them There Day." Her hilarious and entertaining talks have charmed audiences from Microsoft headquarters to the Sydney Opera House. Video produced by Blair Gwaltney. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3Quf8N3Jc

August 13, 2019 Featuring Monica Toft, Emma Ashford, and A. Trevor Thrall Monica Toft, Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, joins us to discuss the growth in U.S. military interventions and the decline of diplomacy. Monica Toft bio https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/monica-duffy-toft Monica Toft, "The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy," War on the Rocks, May 14, 2018 https://warontherocks.com/2018/05/the-dangerous-rise-of-kinetic-diplomacy/ The Military Intervention Project https://sites.tufts.edu/css/the-intervention-project-gets-into-gear/ Learn more: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/power-problems/i-had-hammer Hashtag: #CatoFP Subscribe to Power Problems: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Iidui... RSS: https://www.cato.org/rss/multimedia/p... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LrC4me... Want to find the Cato Institute elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CatoInstitute/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/CatoInstitute/ - ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc74jVcMP4I