Synopsis
The Cato Daily Podcast allows Cato Institute scholars and other commenters to discuss relevant news and libertarian thought in a conversational, informal manner. Hosted by Caleb O. Brown.
Episodes
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: One Local Impediment to Free-Range Kids
05/06/2025 Duration: 13minCaleb 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.Parents might embrace their children’s independence, but how much support do those parents have in the form of local infrastructure? Andrea Keith of Let Grow explains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Conservative Sensibility
04/06/2025 Duration: 15minCaleb 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.Rights precede government. That’s the core of the American founding, and George F. Will argues that it’s worth preserving. His new book is The Conservative Sensibility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Gathering Storm in State Pensions
03/06/2025 Duration: 18minCaleb 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.“Denial” is the single word that the Reason Foundation’s Peter Constant uses to describe the attitude many state governments have taken toward pension finance problems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Let’s Render Some Federal Codes Unenforceable
02/06/2025 Duration: 26minCaleb 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 over victimless crimes may be encouraged under an idea by author Charles Murray. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Ben and Jerry and the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity
30/05/2025 Duration: 14minCaleb 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.Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the icons better known for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Now they’re focusing their notoriety on ending qualified immunity. Ben, Jerry, and Cato’s Jay Schweikert comment on the campaign to end the powerful, court-invented doctrine that shields public officials from accountability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Judicial Activism in Defense of Liberty
29/05/2025 Duration: 10minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Life and Death and Future Life of Fusionism
28/05/2025 Duration: 18minCaleb 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.“Fusionism,” something of an ideological nonaggression pact between libertarians and conservatives, has fallen on hard times. Can it be reborn? Stephanie Slade of Reason discusses her new article on the subject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
27/05/2025 Duration: 16minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise
26/05/2025 Duration: 17minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Equal Protections and Marriage
23/05/2025 Duration: 10minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Remembering Milton Friedman
22/05/2025 Duration: 06minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Courage is the Secret to Liberty
21/05/2025 Duration: 07minCaleb 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 discusses the importance of unfettered freedom of speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Real Problems for REAL ID
20/05/2025 Duration: 04minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: The Libertarian Mind
19/05/2025 Duration: 08minCaleb 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 stronger. Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz talks about the renewed appetite for smaller government and more freedom.The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is the Welfare State Justified?
16/05/2025 Duration: 08minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Is Strip Searching Students in a School Covered by Qualified Immunity?
15/05/2025 Duration: 10minCaleb 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 students? Should parents of those children be able to hold administrators accountable in civil court? Chris Kemmitt is the deputy director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition?
14/05/2025 Duration: 12minCaleb 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 Cornbread Hemp and an advocate for an end to cannabis prohibition. He says the Farm Bill is the key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Few From The Dirty Dozen
13/05/2025 Duration: 06minCaleb 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.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech
12/05/2025 Duration: 22minCaleb 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 the regulation of Americans’ political speech. Cato’s John Samples explains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Best of Cato Daily Podcast: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission
09/05/2025 Duration: 15minCaleb 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 explains his dangerous idea in the new book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.