Featuring the author Arnold Kling; in conversation with Russ Roberts, John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Podcast Host, EconTalk. When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are “like tribes speaking different languages. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization.” Now in its third edition, with new commentary on political psychology and communication in the Trump era, Kling’s book could not be any timelier, as Americans — whether as media pundits or conversing at a party — talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions. The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to how to lower the barriers coarsening our politics. Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives, nuances, and thinking into the important issues we share and must resolve together. Learn more: https://www.cato.org/events/the-three-languages-of-politics 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=sTK-iQVkZN8

Podcast audio: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/rational-optimism-about-planet-earth In his recent work on the greening of our planet, Matt Ridley discovered something interesting: likely scenarios in which humans contribute more to climate change (according to the IPCC) are the same ones in which incomes grow more slowly. Video produced by Caleb O. Brown & Austin Bragg. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BM_p5fWoI0

The Cato Institute seeks to raise awareness about the Jones Act and lay the groundwork for the repeal or reform of this outdated law. Since 1920 the Jones Act has mandated that the sea transport of cargo between U.S. ports must be performed by vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-owned, U.S. flagged, and U.S.-crewed. Justified on national security grounds, the law was meant to ensure a strong maritime sector to bolster U.S. capabilities in times of war or national emergency. These envisioned benefits, however, have proved illusory while the Jones Act has imposed a very real and ongoing economic burden. Despite this, the law survives thanks to well-connected supporters and ignorance of the Jones Act and its costs by the general public. The Cato Institute aims to shake up this status quo by shining a spotlight on the Jones Act’s myriad negative impacts and exposing its alleged benefits as entirely hollow. By systematically laying bare the truth about this nearly 100 year old failed law, the Cato Institute Project on Jones Act Reform is meant to raise public awareness and lay the groundwork for its repeal or reform. https://www.cato.org/project-on-jones-act-reform ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMmmRjSa2I

In their timely new book, Bob Bauer (former White House counsel under President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush) provide a comprehensive roadmap for reforming the presidency. They offer more than 50 concrete proposals concerning conflicts of interest, foreign influence on elections, abuse of the pardon power, assaults on the press, law enforcement independence, special counsel procedures, FBI investigations of presidents and campaigns, the role of the White House counsel, war powers, executive branch vacancies, domestic emergency powers, how one administration should examine possible crimes by the prior administration, and more. Each set of reforms is preceded by rich descriptions of relevant history, background law, and norms. All the proposals are prefaced by a chapter that explains how Donald Trump—and his predecessors—conducted the presidency in ways that justify these reforms. Commenting on them will be J. Michael Luttig, who is not only a former federal judge and U.S. Supreme Court contender but also ran the Office of Legal Counsel under President George H. W. Bush. The conversation will be moderated by Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro), Director of Cato's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. During the event, submit questions on Twitter using #CatoSCOTUS. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoynyktRMt8