The so-called Citizens United case offers the Supreme Court a chance to severely curtail the free speech abuses of the Federal Election Commission. John Samples, Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government, Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Steve Simpson and George Mason University law professor Allison Hayward weigh in.
This video was produced by Austin Bragg ( http://www.twitter.com/habragg ) and Caleb Brown ( http://www.twitter.com/cobrown ).
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The United States remains the world’s dominant exporter of weapons. Between 2017–2021, the U.S. share of the global arms market was 108 percent greater than that of Russia, which is the second‐largest exporter. Since 2009, the United States has approved more than $1 trillion in weapons sales and delivered roughly $736 billion worth of weapons to 167 countries during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.
A new Cato Institute update to the Arms Sales Risk Index evaluates the risk that these exports create for global human rights, international stability, and U.S. security.
Representative Sara Jacobs (D‑CA), Cato’s Jordan Cohen, and Jeff Abramson from the Arms Control Association will discuss the 2021 Arms Sales Risk Index and current efforts to weigh and mitigate risks that the sale of U.S. weapons can pose. The discussion will be moderated by Cato’s Eric Gomez.
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Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) discusses the Clean Power Plan.
Produced by Caleb O. Brown, Tess Terrible and Cory Cooper.
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In this thought-provoking session titled "The Culture of Liberty," Alberto Benegas Lynch, Jr. (National Academy of Sciences, Argentina), Deirdre McCloskey (Cato Institute), and Axel Kaiser (Fundación para el Progreso, Chile) explore the cultural aspects of liberty. The discussion is moderated by Roberto Salinas-León from Atlas Network.
This talk is part of the Cato Institute conference, “The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond,” held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 11–12, 2024, and cosponsored with Libertad y Progreso. The conference brings together prominent classical liberals from around the world to propose ways to limit power, restore the rule of law, and safeguard individual liberty. At a time when many countries are moving away from liberal democracy or strengthening authoritarianism, speakers will discuss the record and relevance of classical liberalism and the importance of Argentina’s reform efforts to Argentina and the world.
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When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern US history. Author Alexander Ward will go behind the scenes to reveal the struggle of this team to enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global crisis. From the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and all the subsequent fallout, Ward will give a first glimpse at how history will potentially view the Biden administration’s foreign policy. Please join us for a discussion with the author and a panel of experts.
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December 19, 2019
From Impeachment to Senate Trial
Featuring Gene Healy and Caleb O. Brown
The House has impeached President Trump, but there are still sticking points about the terms of a Senate trial. What new information might be produced in the trial? Gene Healy looks ahead at the likely outcomes.
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Nat Hentoff is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. http://www.cato.org/people/nat-hentoff
In this clip, Hentoff discusses the deplorable spread of hate-crime legislation, which he argues are crimes against thoughts. Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg.
Nat Hentoff is one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment. While his books and articles regularly defend the rights of Americans to think and speak freely, he also explores our freedoms under the rest of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment by showing how Supreme Court and local legislative decisions affect the lives of ordinary Americans. Hentoff's column, Sweet Land of Liberty, has been distributed by the United Feature Syndicate since 1992.
Hentoff has earned numerous awards and is a widely acknowledged defender of civil liberties. In 1980, he was awarded an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the law and criminal justice in his columns. In 1983, the American Library Association awarded him the Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom. In 1995, he received the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism, and in 1999, he was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary.
Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008. A jazz expert, Hentoff writes on music for The Wall Street Journal and Jazz Times.
Hentoff has lectured at many colleges, universities, law schools, elementary, middle and high schools, and has taught courses in journalism and the Constitution at Princeton University and New York University. Mr. Hentoff serves on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.) and is on the steering committee of the Reporters' Committee for the Freedom of the Press. A native of Boston, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in education and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1950. He did graduate work at Harvard University, received his B.A. with highest honors from Northeastern University and was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from Northeastern in 1985.
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December 23, 2019
Trump’s Decent Record on Regulation (So Far)
Featuring William Yeatman and Caleb O. Brown
For those concerned about the size of the administrative state, there are reasons to be cheerful about the regulatory record of the Trump Administration. Will Yeatman comments.
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