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Each week on Cato Podcast, leading scholars and policymakers from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

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Episodes (4856)

Coming Soon: The Cato Weekly Podcast

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How to Spot a Wrong Number

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Aug 27, 202640:15pending

Heller's Sequel Has a New Weapon

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Aug 25, 202634:51pending

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Affordability?

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Aug 20, 202630:32pending

Can Government Run a Grocery Store?

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Aug 18, 202628:20pending

Bad Ways To Improve Housing Affordability

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Aug 13, 202642:52pending

The Eternal Quest for More Tariffs

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Aug 11, 202627:58pending

Wealth Taxes Failed Abroad. Why Try Them Here?

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Aug 6, 202638:30pending

Iran: Schrodinger's War

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Aug 4, 202626:26pending

AI: Must We Act Now?

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Jul 30, 202641:08pending

Happy 60th Birthday, Now Pay the Bill

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Jul 28, 202626:19pending

The Wisdom of Crowds: An Intro to Prediction Markets

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Jul 23, 202642:21pending

The Fight Against Financial Surveillance

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Jul 21, 202629:28pending

Why Is Childcare So Expensive?

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Jul 16, 202640:28pending

The Amendment That Wouldn't Bend

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Jul 14, 202630:31pending

Injuries and Usurpations, 250 Years Later

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Jul 9, 202638:26pending

Data Centers Turn Electricity into Breakthroughs

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Jul 7, 202635:26pending

Proud to Be American, Worried About What's Next

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Jul 2, 202627:40pending

The Dangerous Push to Tax AI

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Jun 30, 202632:27pending

The Abundance Alliance?

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Jun 25, 202645:58pending

What the Declaration Still Has to Say in 2026

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Jun 23, 202628:06pending

The Degrowth Temptation

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Jun 18, 202647:14pending

The Retirement System That Works Against You

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Jun 16, 202627:12pending

Economics In One World Cup

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Jun 11, 202644:45pending

When the President Sues the Government He Controls

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Jun 9, 202647:09pending

The Markets We Love to Ban

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Jun 4, 202646:52pending

What "All Men Are Created Equal" Actually Meant

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Jun 2, 202634:13pending

Louisiana v. Callais and the Future of the Voting Rights Act

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May 28, 202634:12pending

Get a Warrant!

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May 26, 202628:29pending

Out to Lunch: California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage

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May 21, 202647:56pending

Kicking the Can to Xi's September Visit

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May 19, 202636:50pending

The Immigration Crackdown You’re Not Hearing About

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May 14, 202641:26pending

Washington's Tariff Whack-a-Mole

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May 12, 202622:30pending

The Growing Farm Subsidy Boondoggle

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May 7, 202639:49pending

Rethinking How America Treats Opioid Addiction

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May 5, 202640:12pending

The Cure for the WHO

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Apr 30, 202646:42pending

Congress Is AWOL in America's Iran War

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Apr 28, 202654:34failed

Subsidize a Diagnosis, Get More Diagnoses

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Apr 23, 202631:52failed

The Surveillance Program Congress Can't Quit

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Apr 21, 202624:55failed

How to Fix Washington's Affordability Crisis

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Apr 16, 202638:47failed

Who Actually Pays Federal Taxes?

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Apr 14, 202624:08failed

Orbán's Hungary: Model or Cautionary Tale?

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Apr 9, 202647:17failed

Birthright Citizenship on Trial

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Apr 7, 202648:45failed

The Great Political Realignment

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Apr 2, 202652:05failed

Congressional Feuding and Airport Chaos

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Mar 31, 202622:07failed

The Flaws of Rent Ceilings

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Mar 26, 202642:07failed

Surf, Speech, and Government Cartels

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Mar 24, 202646:15failed

Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation (Z)

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Mar 19, 202640:25completed

Who's Watching the $170 Billion?

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Mar 17, 202631:59failed

Anthropic, Albany, and the AI Backlash

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Mar 12, 202640:13completed
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