Cato Daily Podcast

At the Cato Institute's conference on financial privacy, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) discussed the civil liberties implications of pervasive financial surveillance of Americans among other issues with Cato's Jennifer Schulp.

When the Federal Reserve uses a ministerial task to punish financial innovation, what's a bank to do? Take them to court, for one. Caitlin Long is CEO of Custodia Bank. She and Cato's Jack Solowey detail how and why the Fed is cracking down on innovators.

Protecting our earthly environment is a worthy task, so why do many conservatives seem to believe that the private sector should have a severely limited role? Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center offers his take.

The FDA's rejection of MDMA as a treatment may well be a short-term setback for legally helping people with PTSD and other disorders. Mason Marks of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy offers his assessment.

After months of protest, counterprotest, and administrative overreaction over the last school year, the protection of free speech on college campuses seems less certain than ever. Angela Erickson of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression discusses their new College Free Speech Rankings.

In The Islamic Moses, Mustafa Akyol provides a theological and historical exploration of the connection between Islam and Judaism through the single most-mentioned character in the Quran.

What will/should conservatism look like after this election year? John Hood of the John William Pope Foundation comments.

The "degrowth" movement has many adherents, so it's worth emphasizing the manifold benefits of economic growth to the lives of humans across the globe. Justin Callais of the Archbridge Institute explains.