Cato Podcast

The housing market's normal churn has been all but absent in this pandemic. Does that make for a housing bubble? Tom Firey comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New proposed authorities to combat domestic terrorism after the attack on the Capitol again pose challenges for basic constraints on government like probable cause and particularized suspicion. Patrick Eddington comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parents, put in a bind by a pandemic, have focused their attention on the options available to them for their kids' education. This year may be the very best for the expansion of school choice so far. Jason Bedrick explains how it happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The price we all would ultimately pay for a central government database of our vaccination status to regulate our public engagement could be very high. Can we get the benefits without the costs? Julian Sanchez and Jeff Singer comment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The pandemic has shown us that there is a price to be paid for failing to understand economic consequences. Ryan Bourne catalogs many of the missteps in his new book, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Islamic thinkers once inspired great Western thinkers. How can Islam fully embrace respect for science, reason, liberty, and other religions? Mustafa Akyol is author of Reopening Muslim Minds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Local efforts at criminal justice reform can be preempted by state-level edict. How should states and localities work to get along? Rachel Elise Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics , comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The authorizations that have enabled two decades of American-led war across the globe should be repealed. Congress may finally agree. Gene Healy and John Glaser explain why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Biden administration hopes to spend trillions of new dollars on public infrastructure, and while it's at it, massively subsidize private infrastructure. Cato's Chris Edwards says it's utterly unnecessary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has a new piece of would-be reform legislation, though the proposal highlights just how hard it is to do content moderation at scale. Mike Masnick of  techdirt  and Cato's Will Duffield comment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Understanding what systemic racism is requires an understanding of what it isn't. Jonathan Blanks of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity details  a few important distinctions . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does a former cop think about qualified immunity? Sonia Pruitt is head of The Black Police Experience . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pollsters got it wrong again in 2020, underestimating support for Donald Trump and Republicans more broadly. How are they going to get it right? Emily Ekins discusses the theories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The people who set the prices for a lot of Medicare-funded services point out many of the problems that leads Michael Cannon to conclude that the behemoth of government health care provides "junk" coverage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big players expanding telehealth offerings while a great deal of state regulation is temporarily suspended might mean a vast expansion of telehealth offerings going forward. Jeff Singer comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

California's poverty is dramatically more stark than in other states. Delivering on an inclusive economic recovery from a pandemic means addressing several underlying policy problems. Michael Tanner comments ahead of his conference in April . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Biden administration has ways to make good on pledges to treat young people crossing the border fairly. David Bier comments . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 details a downtrodden GOP approaching irrelevance ahead of the surprising resurgence of Ronald Reagan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stupid wars go back a long time, but the idea that war is stupid is relatively new. John Mueller explores the modern idea in The Stupidity of War . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When will President Biden withdraw all support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen? Does Joe Biden own the war in Afghanistan if he doesn’t stick to the current timeline for U.S. departure? Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California discusses the Biden foreign policy so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fifty years ago this month, a group of anti-war activists broke into the FBI and revealed terrible crimes committed by that agency under the secrecy of COINTELPRO. Patrick Eddington details the history . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do judges feel undue influence from libertarian legal scholars? Sheldon Whitehouse may believe that's the case, and he'd like to change the way groups like the Cato Institute are allowed to engage with the judiciary. Ilya Shapiro comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A year after Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor, what's changed? Peter Kraska is a policing researcher at Eastern Kentucky University who worked on the Taylor case. He comments on police reform efforts now underway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's easy to want to throw the book at someone who's engaged in some egregious conduct, but it's harder to understand what even seemingly minor punishments entail. Author and criminal justice scholar John Pfaff discusses the incentives inherent in the way criminal justice is carried out in America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Trump administration made extensive use of national security justifications for restricting trade. It's time for the law that allows it to go . Inu Manak and Scott Lincicome comment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.