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About Cato Audio

Every month, CatoAudio puts you right in the middle of important policy debates in Washington. Through highlights from the Cato Institute’s dynamic Policy Forums, speeches, debates, and conferences, you can listen to in-depth discussions from well-known political leaders, authors, political experts, pundits, journalists, and other nationally respected scholars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Cato Institute

Category

government · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jan 2009

Latest episode

3 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 161 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Apr 2025

   April/May 2025

   Introduction: Caleb O. Brown Walter Olson and Thomas Berry on the Trump administration and the law Caleb R. Trotter on state licensure boards threat to free market competition Mark Clifford on the story of Jimmy Lai as a champion of Hong Kong’s freedom Brian Doherty and Gene Healy on the intellectual roots of the Libertarian movement in Brian Doherty’s book, Modern Libertarianism Exclusive: Jeffrey Singer on his new book, Your Body Your Healthcare Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   4 Feb 2025

   February/March 2025

   Introduction: Caleb O. Brown Patrick Eddington, Mike Fox, and Brent Skorup on surveillance and criminal justice Romina Boccia and Adam Michel on how Congress can help the DOGE be successful Ryan Tracy, Norbert Michel and Jennifer J. Schulp on what to expect from the Trump administration’s impact on financial markets Jennifer Huddleston and Rep. Jay Obernolte on AI policy and its future Exclusive: Tom Palmer on his Free Society article, “Civil Society or Political Society?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   9 Dec 2024

   December 2024

   Cato Institute experts Caleb Brown, David Bier, Clark Packard, Thomas Firey, Walter Olson, Jeffrey Singer, Michael Cannon, Justin Logan, and Brandan Buck share insights on trade, immigration, regulation, healthcare, and foreign policy.

Inside a recent episode

May 2014

Published 1 May 2014 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is the I hunt sysadmin story, as I think of it, because this is an NSA analyst who proudly declared that what he likes to do is not just target foreign intelligence agents or foreign terrorists, but system administrators who have what the analysts call the keys to the kingdom. And the idea here is look, you may need to be able to spy on foreign communications networks in the future. And so what you want to do is target not just bad actors, but people who work in information technology so you can steal their passwords, build back doors into those systems, and make sure, again, that every communication system around the world is vulnerable to NSA when it needs to spy. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

14,080,764

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

93

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