“Disinvitation season” for commencement speakers has become something of a hallmark of the college experience in recent years. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explains in his new essay, “Freedom from Speech.”
September 22, 2020
A New Supreme Court Nomination Fight Begins
Featuring Ilya Shapiro and Caleb O. Brown
With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, yet another bitter and contentious Supreme Court nomination battle has begun. Ilya Shapiro, author of Supreme Disorder, comments.
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Financial Inclusion: The Cato Summit on Financial Regulation
Fireside Chat
Rodney Hood, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration
in conversation with
Lydia Mashburn, Managing Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute
New financial tools are bringing more people into the modern financial world — changing how households save, borrow, invest in their futures, and pay for everyday needs, while helping serve the unbanked and underbanked in society. What innovations are making access to financial services easier, more affordable, and safer? How are regulators adapting to such rapid change? Is our regulatory framework helping or hindering progress toward more inclusion?
Join us — along with innovators, policy experts, and regulators — for the 5th annual Cato Summit on Financial Regulation as we explore the policy framework for financial inclusion. Topics include tech-driven consumer credit access, consumer financial data and AI, faster payments for all, and more.
Learn more: https://www.cato.org/events/cato-summit-financial-regulation-2019
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Watch full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/struggle-continues-50-years-tyranny-zimbabwe
As a young man, David Coltart was urged by Robert Mugabe to return from South Africa to Zimbabwe, where Coltart rose to become senator and education minister. But, as Mugabe became increasingly dictatorial, Coltart became one of Mugabe’s favorite targets of vilification. Coltart was branded a traitor to the state and worthy of remaining in Zimbabwe only as a resident of one of its prisons. For three decades, Coltart has kept detailed notes and records of all his work, including a meticulous diary of cabinet meetings. Coltart’s book deals with the last 60 years of Zimbabwe’s history: from the obstinate rule of Ian Smith that provoked Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965, to the civil war of the 1970s, the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s, Robert Mugabe’s war on white landowners, and the struggles waged by Coltart’s party — the Movement for Democratic Change. Coltart will also discuss one of his key concerns: the role of political extremists who have consistently subverted Zimbabwe’s chances of realizing its true potential.
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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was intended to give lawmakers and communities necessary information on the environmental impact of government decisions, such as whether to approve new construction.
Over the 50 years that the law has been in effect, however, it has become a roadblock to new housing construction in California. Much of this new construction would, in fact, support California’s environmental goals by creating housing close to jobs and transit, minimizing the environmental impact of commuting. CEQA has become a roadblock to new development by opening up projects to lawsuits, often from wealthier, whiter communities that oppose the construction of dense housing.
Learn more from the Cato Institute's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California, and join the conversation with #CatoCalifornia... https://www.cato.org/project-poverty-inequality-california
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Tom Palmer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is on the ground in Poland and Ukraine.
Listen to the full podcast episode: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/naked-collectivism-animates-putins-war-ukraine
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Related interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHm0zB6pEP4
Full event:
http://www.cato.org/events/end-near-its-going-be-awesome-how-going-broke-will-leave-america-richer-happier-more-secure
Featuring the author Kevin D. Williamson, National Review; with comments by Nick Gillespie, Editor in Chief, Reason.com and Reason TV; and Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
Purchase bookIn his new book, The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome, Kevin D. Williamson examines the crisis of the modern welfare state and demonstrates that the crucial political failures of our time, from education to health care, are the direct result of government monopolies providing and regulating these services. Entitlement programs have promised far more than they can deliver, and slow moving bureaucracies have stifled innovation and efficiency in attempts to deliver on these failed promises. There is, however, a light at the end of the tunnel, as millions of Americans reject the status quo and turn to their own ingenuity to create successful market-derived alternatives to these government monopolies. Please join Kevin Williamson and Cato Institute senior fellow Michael Tanner for an examination of the current state of U.S. entitlement programs and a lively discussion of how the free-market responds when the government fails.
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http://www.cato.org/events/european-crisis-continues-no-solution-horizon
As the European Crisis continues, with no solution in sight, it is becoming increasingly clear to many that the problems are deep and structural. Stagnant growth, persistent unemployment, and public dissatisfaction are threatening the very premises of the European project. Although some believe that "an ever-closer Europe" is the solution, others argue that the current crisis is no accident; it is the natural result of naïve and excessively optimistic expectations concerning the economic benefits of integration and centralization. Professor Václav Klaus, former Czech minister of finance and prime minister, and now distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute, will address these pressing questions during his first visit to Washington just days after stepping down from his second term as president.
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On April 8, 2020, the Cato Institute hosted the event “The Economics of Lockdowns.” The spring 2020 shutdown regulations were unusual in the sheer scale of their impacts on economic and social welfare. Yet one year on, public policy decisions pertaining to the pandemic have continued to be unusually consequential, including the ordering and distribution of vaccines and the passing of major “stimulus” packages.
To mark the publication of Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 by the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne, this book forum will discuss what we’ve learned about public policy and the economic reasoning that has informed it over the past year. In particular, the forum will assess the extent to which the tragic death toll and economic damage we’ve seen during the pandemic can be laid at the door of important decisions being underpinned by faulty economic reasoning.
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+ John Cochrane (@JohnHCochrane), Rose‐Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; blogger, The Grumpy Economist
+ Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) Columnist, Washington Post
+ Alex Tabarrok (@ATabarrok), Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics, Mercatus Center; professor of economics, George Mason University; blogger, Marginal Revolution
+ moderated by Ryan Bourne (@MrRBourne), R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics, Cato Institute.
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MORE INFORMATION: https://www.cato.org/events/economics-one-virus-what-have-we-learned
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