The 5 Best Cato Daily Podcast Episodes
1) The Cost-Benefit Calculation for College
Author Zak Slayback says too few young people seriously consider the costs and benefits of college versus other choices.
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College can be a great idea for some and for some others it’s an albatross of debt with few positive attributes
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Cops Shoot Woman, SCOTUS Tells Her She May Not Sue
The Supreme Court has told a woman that despite being shot by police eight times under questionable circumstances, no civil jury should ever hear her case. Clark Neily comments.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor stands for our right to sue police. Even if you agree w police having qualified immunity, it’s important that the p...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Serious Proposals to Reduce Gun Deaths
If lawmakers want to get serious about reducing gun deaths, the War on Drugs and suicide are the best places to start. Trevor Burrus evaluates the proposals from those who march against gun violence.
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A reasoned discussion of the proposals on guns. Sadly it seems that they appear to have little influence on the largest causes of gun relat...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Why Won’t Courts Question Qualified Immunity?
Courts are loathe to take cases that might alter or weaken qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that protects police from some of the consequences of serious misconduct. Why? William Baude of the Un...Show More
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Qualified immunity means that many government officials are immune from prosecution for what would land a normal person in prison. This is ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) The Case against Qualified Immunity
"Qualified immunity" is a doctrine that protects police from misconduct that would send someone without a badge to jail. Clark Neily and Jay Schweikert discuss the controversy.
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A significant discussion on how the legal immunity courts have given to government employees changes their relationship to the general publi...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) The Global Freedom Slump
Cato's Ian Vásquez and the Fraser Institute's Matt Mitchell walk through the 2025 edition of the Human Freedom Index, documenting a worldwide decline in economic, civil, and personal freedoms that beg...Show More
7) Better Care for Billions Less: Fixing Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Incentives
Cato's Michael Cannon and the Center for Long-Term Care Reform's Stephen Moses examine how Medicaid’s long-term-care eligibility rules let middle- and upper-middle-class households shelter assets and ...Show More
8) Strategy Without Strategy: Inside the New NSS
The Cato Institute's Katherine Thompson and Josh Shifrinson join Justin Logan to dissect the most contentious passages of the National Security Strategy, including its warnings about European “civiliz...Show More
9) Repeal Day: Alcohol Prohibition and the Hypocrisy of the Drug War
The Cato Institute's Jeff Singer and Michael Fox mark Repeal Day by examining how alcohol prohibition and the modern drug war share the same destructive logic: criminalizing peaceful people, fueling b...Show More
10) NIH's Lost Mission
Cato adjunct scholars Terence Kealey and John Early join Ryan Bourne to discuss the pair's new Cato working paper Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America. Kealey and Early detail ho...Show More