Cato Podcast
Hosted by Ryan Bourne and Laura Bondank-Harmon and Rikki Schlott · Cato Institute
- 4,855
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
About Cato Podcast
Every Tuesday on The Cato Weekly Podcast, leading scholars and policy analysts from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. 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
- 16 May 2006
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
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Is the US Already Quasi-Socialist?
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Is the US Already Quasi-Socialist?
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But all these people, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Mayor Mamdani, they all say, well, when we're talking about socialism, we're not talking about the USSR. We're not talking about Czechoslovakia. What we're talking about is the Scandinavian nations, the Nordic nations that have lovely, generous social welfare programs, that have school vouchers, that have unemployment benefits, that have disability checks, that have public pensions, what we would call Social Security in America. So what are they getting wrong here? What's the problem with saying that actually what true socialism is, in their opinion, is none of these examples in the early and late 20th century. […]
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