Cato Book Found on Elon Musk’s Desk
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Think Tank | Tags: Atlantic City, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Cato Institute, Club for Growth, D.C., Dana Berliner, David Boaz, Donald Trump, New Jersey, Republican Party (United States), Vera Coking, Washington Leave a comment
Today, a Cato fan tweeted a photo of Elon Musk’s desk with a copy of the Cato book, The Dirty Dozen by Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy and Institute for Justice’s William Mellor.
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[VIDEO] “We Used Up All The Weird”: Author P.J. ORourke Talks About ‘The Baby Boom’
Posted: March 13, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Humor, Reading Room | Tags: Baby Boom, Cato Institute, Christopher Buckley, David Boaz, H.L Mencken, Jean Shepherd, O'Rourke, P. J. O'Rourke, Thurber Prize for American Humor 1 CommentFeaturing the author P. J. O’Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute; with introductory remarks by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
“We’re often silly, and we’re spoiled by any measure of history…At the same time we made the world a better place — just not necessarily in the ways we set out to.”
— Author P. J. O’Rourke
In his first book of all new, previously unpublished material since 2007, best-selling humorist P. J. O’Rourke 
turns his lens on his fellow post-war babies. In “The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way” O’Rourke draws on his own experiences and leads readers on a candid, laugh-out-loud journey through the circumstances and events that shaped a generation.
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At this Cato Book Forum, he will tackle the big, broad problems stemming from the generation that, for better or worse, changed everything.
Survey: How Libertarians Fit In the GOP
Posted: December 31, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Cato Institute, David Boaz, Justin Amash, Libertarianism, Nick Gillespie, Republican, Tea Party, United States 1 Comment
Kevin Glass reports: The Brookings Institution‘s Public Religion Research Institute conducts what they call the “American Values Survey,” and this year have focused particularly on how libertarians fit into the American political fabric. Libertarians are traditionally thought of as being “on the right” and presumed to be most accurately represented, of the two major parties, by the Republican Party.
But is that really true?
PRRI finds that libertarians constitute a very small segment of the GOP and have difficulty making common cause with the other ideological strains of the Republican Party. Specifically, libertarians are repelled by the religious right, which still makes up a significan portion of the conservative movement.
As Brookings’ Ross Tilchin writes:
pundit from another planet 