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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 information.

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Government

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Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory 27.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise 26.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Equal Protections and Marriage 23.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Milton Friedman 22.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Courage is the Secret to Liberty 21.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. In presenting the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to Danish newspaper editor Flemming Rose, former ACLU president Nadine Strossen discus...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Real Problems for REAL ID 20.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Libertarian Mind 19.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Libertarianism — the philosophy of personal and economic freedom — has deep roots in Western civilization and in American history, and it’s growing...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is the Welfare State Justified? 16.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Strip Searching Students in a School Covered by Qualified Immunity? 15.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Discussions of qualified immunity focus almost exclusively on police. What about when public school administrators clearly violate the rights of stu...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition? 14.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. What’s the best path forward to end cannabis prohibition without loading it up with needless federal regulation? Jim Higdon is the co-founder of&nbs...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Few From The Dirty Dozen 13.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech 12.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. In assessing the legacy of Mitch McConnell as a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, it’s important to include his large role in radically reducing...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission 09.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Civil disobedience may be the only avenue left for millions of Americans who just want to go about their business undisturbed. Charles Murray expla...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Communicating Economics in Troubled Times 08.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Repeal the 17th Amendment? 07.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Rights, Powers and the Libertarian Vision 06.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: POTUS as Chief Magistrate 05.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex 02.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security 01.05.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent 30.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Don’t talk to the police, even if you want to help them solve a crime. James Duane says that’s the advice police and lawyers give their own childre...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Taking Back Congressional Power over Tariffs and Trade 29.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. The freedom to trade is morally good. Congress has sadly delegated many of its powers over trade to the White House. That poses particular risks to...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Women Are More Than Their Interactions with the State 28.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. As many voters are licking their wounds after failing to elect the first female U.S. President, Anthony Comegna talks about how the important histo...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth 25.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Why have five or more children? Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk details the stories and reasoning...

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Smoot-Hawley 81 Years Later 24.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Asserting Liberty and the Power of ‘No’ 23.04.2025

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute . This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners. In the long history of the ebb and flow of liberty, some examples stand out. Jim Otteson of Wake Forest University offered a few of those examples...

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