

Cato Event Podcast
Cato Institute
Podcast of policy and book forums, Capitol Hill briefings and other events from the Cato Institute Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 3, 2024 • 33min
Internship Insights: Matching Experience with Opportunities 2
Are you eager to secure that dream internship opportunity? Do you want to stand out from the competition? Do you want to learn how you can match your experience on campus with the right opportunities at Cato? If so, join us for an informative and interactive session with current interns and application reviewers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 3, 2024 • 20min
Internship Insights: Matching Experience with Opportunities – Panel 1
Are you eager to secure that dream internship opportunity? Do you want to stand out from the competition? Do you want to learn how you can match your experience on campus with the right opportunities at Cato? If so, join us for an informative and interactive session with current interns and application reviewers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024 • 60min
Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2023
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up.Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 3min
Panel III: Blockbuster Cases—Affirmative Action, Elections, and Student Loans
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 15min
Panel II: Freedom of Expression and the First Amendment
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 23min
Welcoming and Panel I: The Limits of State and Federal Power
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024 • 59min
Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture 2023
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day‐long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 31, 2024 • 1h 29min
The Pursuit of Happiness How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
“We hold these truths to be self‐evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”The second sentence of the Declaration of Independence is perhaps one of the most resonant of all phrases from the American Founding. But what did the Founders mean by “Happiness”? And how, exactly, was it to be pursued? In his new book, The Pursuit of Happiness, Jeffrey Rosen examines the many ways that key figures of the American Founding turned to ancient Greek and Roman philosophers as guides toward a better understanding of happiness and the good life. Through the eyes of American figures such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Frederick Douglass, Rosen explores virtues such as temperance, humility, and moderation and their relationship to self‐improvement and good governance. What emerges is a set of important insights about the relationship between the quality of character and the nature and success of political and social organization. Rosen’s concluding pages offer a sobering set of reflections about our own culture currently marinating in social media and internet excess and asks how we might rediscover a path that the Founders themselves worked to keep alive more than 200 years ago.Join Jonathan Fortier, director of Libertarianism.org, for a discussion with author Jeffrey Rosen and Michael Poliakoff, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 24, 2024 • 1h
Electric Vehicle Subsidies and the State of US Industrial Policy
It has been two years since more than $2 trillion in new US industrial policy initiatives were signed into law. However, despite the much‐publicized increases in construction spending and numerous announcements of future investments—there has been little actual evidence of the manufacturing boom that these government programs were supposed to catalyze. Instead, many projects have been delayed or, in the case of electric vehicles and offshore wind, canceled altogether, owed to both changing market conditions and many of the same economic, regulatory, and political hurdles that have long plagued US industrial policy efforts.Please join the Cato Institute as we detail past US industrial policy efforts, the long‐standing problems these initiatives have faced, and whether today’s US industrial policy projects appear to be heading for the same unfortunate conclusion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 24, 2024 • 1h 30min
At What Price: Determining Pharmaceutical Prices in Medicare
A complex array of government policies and market forces cause drug prices to be higher in the United States than other nations. Is this a problem? If so, are there better policies for determining drug prices? What is the “right” price for a drug? Panelists will discuss evidence suggesting that US drug prices are excessive and what policymakers should and should not do in response. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


