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In the latest issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato scholar Julian Sanchez reviews the most significant government spying programs we’ve learned about to date. Together, they reveal a surveillance machine vastly more powerful than anything Hoover could have dreamed of.
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The 2008-2009 financial crisis and Great Recession have vastly increased the power and scope of the Federal Reserve, and radically changed the financial landscape. This new ebook examines those changes and considers how the links between money, markets, and government may evolve in the future.
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For over 30 years, the Cato Institute has worked to change the climate of ideas. The cumulative effect of this effort is real impact today. Here’s how Cato puts Sponsors’ contributions to work.
Today, government poses many new threats to individual freedom and the virtues needed for its preservation. Unfortunately, career politicians, an ever-expanding government and massive regulatory constraints dominate American political life. Cato’s government and politics studies are dedicated to bringing the ideals of individual liberty, civil society, limited government and citizen legislators back to the forefront of American political life.
If you’ve been losing sleep over the genius glut in American punditry, rest easy.
A tweak here, a tweak there, starting with the truth.
Timothy Sandefur’s insightful new book documents a vital, forgotten truth: our Constitution was written to secure liberty, not to empower democracy. Yet today’s overemphasis on democracy has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence should be the framework for interpreting our fundamental law. It is the conscience of the Constitution.
To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this pocket-size edition.
It’s time for America to accept the truth: the government can’t fix the economy because the government wrecked the economy. This book gives us the tools, the inspiration—and the cure.
An H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, P.J. O’Rourke has reported on the inner workings of the U.S. government, explained the global economy, and written on the American automobile industry. At this Cato Book Forum, he tackles the big, broad problems stemming from the generation that, for better or worse, changed everything – covered in his new book The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way…And It Wasn’t My Fault…And I’ll Never Do It Again – his first book of all new, previously unpublished material since 2007.
