Event Archives - 2016

December 15

Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception

Featuring the author Paul Pillar, Researcher, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; with comments by Robert Jervis, Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University; Trevor Thrall, Associate Professor, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University; Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute.

December 14

The 2016 Cato Surveillance Conference

Featuring Charlie Savage, New York Times; Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Amie Stepanovich, U.S. Policy Manager, AccessNow; Kevin Bankston, Director, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation; Patrick Eddington, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Michael German, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute; Mieke Eoyang, Vice President  for National Security Program, Third Way; Alan Butler, Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Jennifer Daskal, American University Washington College of Law; Shane Harris, Wall Street Journal; Susan Hennessey, Fellow, Brookings Institution; Timothy Edgar, Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University; Carrie Cordero, Former Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice; Sharia Mayfield, Staff Attorney, Oregon Department of Justice; Nathan Leamer, Policy Analyst, R Street Institute.

December 9

Cato in the Courts: Wall Street Edition

Featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute; Thaya Brook Knight, Associate Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.

December 8

What Went Wrong? Russia 25 Years after the Fall of the Soviet Union

Featuring David Satter, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; and Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Cato Institute

December 8

Convincing China to Coerce North Korea

Featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia and Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Scott A. Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea, Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; moderated by Christopher A. Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy, Cato Institute.

December 7

Cato Club Naples 2016

By invitation only. For more information please contact Jenna Huhn at jhuhn [at] cato.org or 202-218-4617.

December 7

The State of American Criminal Justice

Featuring Kevin Ring, Vice President, Families against Mandatory Minimums, Marc Mauer, Executive Director, Sentencing Project, Keeda Haynes, Public Defender, Nashville Defenders, Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale University, Elizabeth Joh, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, Walter Katz, Independent Police Auditor, City of San Jose, Maj. Max Geron, Dallas Police Department, Harvey Silverglate, Counsel Attorney, Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP, Hon. Shira Scheindlin, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York (ret.); Of Counsel, Stroock, Stroock, & Lavan LLP, Ken White, Attorney, Brown, White & Osborn, LLP, Moderated by Adam Bates, Policy Analyst, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute, Matthew Feeney, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, Jonathan Blanks, Research Associate, Cato Institute, Trevor Burrus, Research Fellow, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.

December 6

#CatoDigital — Free Speech in the Age of Trump

Featuring Flemming Rose, Recipient, The 2016 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty; adjunct scholar, Cato Institute; and author of The Tyranny of Silence; Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief, Reason.com and Reason TV (@nickgillespie); moderated by Kat Murti, Senior Digital Outreach Manager, Cato Institute (@KatMurti).

December 1

What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People

Featuring the authors Jennifer Bachner, Director, Master of Science in Government Analytics, Johns Hopkins University; and Benjamin Ginsberg, David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University; with comments by Donald Kettl, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; moderated by John Samples, Vice President and Publisher, Cato Institute.

November 30

Cutting Wasteful Spending in the Trump Administration

Featuring James Lankford (R-OK), United States Senator; Thomas A. Schatz, President, Citizens against Government Waste; Chris Edwards, Editor of DownsizingGovernment.org, Cato Institute; and Justin Bogie, Senior Policy Analyst in Fiscal Affairs, Heritage Foundation; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.

November 30

Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2016

Featuring Peter Goettler, President and CEO, Cato Institute; Michael Huemer, Author, The Problem of Political Authority, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder; David Boaz, Author, The Libertarian Mind, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Marian Tupy, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute, Editor, HumanProgress.org.

November 29

Housing Crisis: Should Urban Areas Grow Up or Grow Out to Keep Housing Affordable?

Featuring Emily Hamilton, Policy Research Manager, Mercatus Center; Gerrit Knaap, Professor of Urban Studies and Executive Director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland; and Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Vanessa Calder, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.