Event Archives - 2016

October 13 to October 16

Cato Club 200 Retreat

By invitation only

October 12

Fall Fables & Fallacies: The Truth about Policing in America

Featuring Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; Adam Bates, Policy Analyst, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; Jonathan Blanks, Managing Editor of PoliceMisconduct.net; Research Associate, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; and Matthew Feeney Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.

October 12

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Featuring the author Johan Norberg, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Ronald Bailey, Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Editor, www.humanprogress.org.

October 11

The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do about It

Featuring the author Timothy Sandefur, Vice President for Litigation, Goldwater Institute; with comments by Alan Morrison, Associate Dean and Professional Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School; and Stephen F. Williams, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.

October 6

China’s Future Depends on a Free Market for Ideas

Featuring Weiying Zhang, Professor of Economics, Peking University, and author, The Logic of the Market: An Insider’s View of Chinese Economic Reform (Cato, 2015); with comments by Ning Wang, Senior Fellow, Ronald Coase Institute, and co-author, How China Became Capitalist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

October 6

What in the World Is Going on with Obamacare’s Exchanges?

Featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Brian Blase, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Cynthia Cox, Associate Director, Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; moderated by Peter Russo, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute.

October 5

Dealing with China’s Steel Overcapacity

Featuring Kevin Dempsey, Senior Vice President for Public Policy, American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI); and Daniel Pearson, Senior Fellow, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Daniel Ikenson, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

October 4

In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State and Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

Featuring the authors Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; and Andy Stern, Ronald O. Perlman Senior Fellow, Columbia University; Former President, Service Employees International Union; moderated by Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

October 3

Refugees, Immigrants, and National Security

Featuring Charles Stimson, Manager, National Security Law Program and Senior Legal Fellow, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation; Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; and Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by A. Trevor Thrall, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

September 29

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

Featuring the author James Duane, Professor, Regent University Law School; with comments by Randy Barnett, Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution, Georgetown University Law School; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

September 28

Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power

Featuring the author Josh Blackman, Associate Professor, Houston College of Law; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; with comments by Robert Barnes, Supreme Court Correspondent, Washington Post; and Philip Klein, Managing Editor, Washington Examiner, and author, Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care; moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.

September 27

The Domestic Drone Revolution: Risks and Rewards in Perspective

Panelists include Tim Adelman, attorney, LeclairRyan; Kristi Lane Scott, Deputy Director, Office of Privacy & Civil Liberties, United States Department of Justice; Patrick Eddington, policy analyst, homeland security and civil liberties, Cato Institute; Matthew Feeney, policy analyst at the Cato Institute; Travis R. Hall, telecommunications policy analyst, National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Arthur Holland Michel, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College; Don Roby, training program manager, Airborne Law Enforcement Association; Stephanie Spear, commercial regulatory policy representative, National Association of Realtors; Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project; and Justin Towles, vice president, regulatory and legislative affairs, American Association of Airport Executives.