President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, one of the leading market reformers of the post socialist era, spoke at the Cato Institute about contemporary environmental issues facing Europe and the world.
Blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan and New York Times columnist David Brooks debate the current state of conservatism at a forum at the Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org ).
Cato Institute scholar Mike Tanner discusses his new book, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution at a recent Cato Institute event.
Blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan addresses an audience member's discomfort with gay marriage at a forum at the Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org ).
Naomi Klein's recent book, The Shock Doctrine, alleges that the Tiananmen Square crackdown was intended to crush opposition to pro-market reforms. Johan Norberg, in his recent analysis, "The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics" shows that in fact it caused liberalization to stall for years.
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Yon Goicoechea, ex-presidente del Parlamento Estudiantil Venezolano y Geraldine Alvarez, presidenta del Parlamento Estudiantil Venezolano comentan su promoción de los derechos humanos en Venezuela. Esta entrevista fue grabada en Santa Cruz, Bolivia el 15 de enero de 2008.
Michael McDonald, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses the outcomes and implications of Election 2006 at an event at the Cato Institute (http:/www.cato.org)
s the U.S. organ donor waiting list nears a record 100,000 and an average of seven Americans die every day waiting for an organ that never comes, solving the U.S. organ shortage takes on new urgency. Benjamin Hippen argues that the shortage could be solved by lifting the U.S. prohibition on the sale of human organs.
Since the depth of the U.S. manufacturing recession in 2002, the sector as a whole has experienced sustained and robust growth. Lewis Leibowitz, with the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition, argues that imports aren't merely consumer goods from other countries, they're tools to be used in the thriving U.S. manufacturing sector.
