hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible] [inaudible] it's my distinct honor to introduce this year's lecturer. what rachel barkow is vice dean and professor of law at nyu law school. and also director of a center on criminal law. her scholarship focuses on applying constitutional law to criminal justice. she is the lead author of a criminal law casebook. her book from 2019's prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration, demonstrating how policy can undermine public safety. and how we can get better policy by letting evidence guide our choices. vice dean barkow received the distinguished teaching award in 2007. she has served on the u.s. sentencing commission in the manhattan da advisory panel. she founded a clemency resource center for 96 people as part of i president obama's initiatives. this helped earn her a separate award. she also interned for justice antonin scalia. vice dean barkow will speak on the courts and mass incarceration. thank you very much for sticking around. i very much appre

senior fellow economics at the cato institute.s going to break it all down coming up next. ♪♪ inflation sensation sweeping the nation. guess what -- it's getting worse. it's really going to suck. it's not bad now at all, pretty normal now but families starting to feel the tension. prices reportedly up 4.6 last year,%, but so bad for keto leaders. >> can't afford half the stuff. >> going out there. it affects people living on the edge. >> it's impacting our entire lives. kennedy: /, most people are living on the edge giving inflationary pinch, they are not sitting around waiting in their office. it's turning into a big mess for the president because it's not going away anytime soon. the president's approval rating at 37%. it's the lowest of his presidency. how much higher prices go and how long could this last? joining me to discuss cato institute, he just froze, we lost him. i'm going to -- i will play the part of scott in this. hello, scott. oh wait, he's back. yeah, you are there. i was going to have to seeing. every 6-year-old

75th year, anniversary, of the country's oldest free market thing chain, and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writers, at forbes, and as you mentioned, the author of an schooled. which came out in 2019, but had renewed interest over the past year, or plus, given the school shutdowns, and the upsurge in interest in home schooling, and alternatives to school. particularly, was school shutdowns, and delayed reopening plans. on the practical level, have you've been a teacher in the classroom, or do you have children more of school age? >> so, i am a home schooling mom myself. i have four children who have never been in school, who are interim seven, to 14. so, from personal experience and reflection. i travel the country in writing the book to visit other how they're home schooling families, as well as self directed learning centers, and other schooling alternatives, that are cater to families, looking for something different. something more customized for their children's education outside of, again, the traditional school environment. my undergraduate degree is an economics, an

the cato institute -- they have national outreach. in addition, you can also reach out to particular parties. the parties have what can get people engaged. at this point, they provide organizing or advice to people on how they should redistrict. we advise people on the policies that go into redistricting, so that those drawing the lines have the best possible. >> concerns about gerrymandering always comes up, but do you think that those concerns are increasing in recent years? have concerns over gerrymandering than bigger than they are right now? >> the original term of j mentoring comes from massachusetts in 1812. he signed into law a redistricting plan drawn by the massachusetts general court of that state. a newspaper came across it and said this is not a salamander, which it kind of looked like. it is a gerry-mander. it is not new. politics have always been a part of redistricting. >> richmond, virginia. this is martin, an independent. >> good morning. you guys have answered some of my questions. they are back to the red and blue

this is about an hour. >>> welcome to the cato institute for our 20-day national institute conference. i'm the director of the robert levy institute of science. thanks to the cato institute who allows us to produce this symposium and journal. the fact we can even have an in-person event, i'm glad there are people in the audience right here in addition to the hordes online, this marks perhaps a new normal as covid-19 becomes an endemic part of our lives. we may still be dealing with lingering mask policies, along with policy wisdom, but at least vaccines and therapeutics allow most of us to live our lives essentially as in the before times. the supreme court is also returning to an in-person argument format, though not yet open to anyone beyond staff, counsel and the media. today is the day when we review the supreme court term just passed and preview the next one, finishing up with the annual b. kenneth simon lecture, which this year will be provided by rachel barkov at the institute of law. after that we'll have our session and those on land will be welcome to treat yourself to your

i'm still a root libertarian ranting and bars, but i get to work at the cato institute. of course, l.a. shapiro, who's been one of my partners that i've talked with on so many briefs, and i don't even know the count at this point. now, for the directive of the apartment was skill, and this newly minted vice president of legal affairs, and someone who is a tireless champion of human liberty, and justice. my associate editors, will he eight men, you'll see later, tommy berry, walter olson, and delia, our excellent legal associates who, trust me, is a whirlwind endeavor, when you try to publish something in five weeks. that pence or spencer davenport, stacey hansen, valerie reader, christian townsend, and madeleine brooks, and richard fried all. last, definitely not least, sam seagull men, who will represent the audience questions, all day, who is an excellent editor, and attention to detail. i would like to think linda, quijano, the conference staff, which can try to do something. this year, definitely, is not in their job description, originally. this isn't david, doing t

it's part of a symposium hosted by the cato institute. >>> welcome to the cato institute for our 20th annual institution day conference. my name is ilya shapiro and i am vice president and director of the robert a. levy center for constitutional studies. i'm also the publisher of the cato supreme court review, the 20th volume of which you can buy at cato.org or download the articles for free. thanks to the george m. yeager family foundation whose generosity allows us to produce this symposium and journal. of course the fact that we can even have an in-person event, i'm glad that there are actually people in the audience right here in addition to the hordes online. this marks a bit of a return to normal or perhaps a new normal as covid-19 becomes an endemic part of our lives. we may still be dealing with lingering mask mandates and other restrictions of dubious constitutionality let alone policy wisdom but at least vaccines and therapeutics allow most of us to live our lives essentially as in the before times. and the supreme court is also returning to an in-person argument format, tho

i'm the director of natural resource studies here at the cato institute, kato hired people like me, primarily to change public opinion. and that's what i did. there may be some extreme events that occur down the road and we don't know what the chances for that might be. the climate skepticism is entirely dependent upon the promotion of doubt about the underlying science. james hanson at nasa thinks it's maybe 710121520 percent. other scientists think there's probably more like 0.3 percent denial about the underlying sciences. the critical is the critical junction that event while taylor takes a sick of water, meat, mock moran of what i'm going to like. yeah, i'm going to be looking at you can be sitting there. so i be like, my job essentially is covering the global warming movement and communicating to the public to the latest findings. you look at the, the satellite data. we're, we actually had no significant warming since 998. actually no warming, we've been cooling and recent years. you had a background as a salesman can just that was really, i was a door to i worked at the door to door sa

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there's an article from the cato institute called the leninist strategy to defeat social security.ou get a foothold on me and gaining ground, gaining ground, and gain ground. i don't think there's anything particularly unique about radicals, liberals do this too. we all have our tactical deficiencies. but what conservatives have understood is basically this is a world of politics as one with millennial fix. if you are a christian conservative, literally the fate of humanity itself, right? and so that has made them willing to -- there is a quote from the publisher of national review before the storm is name was william rusher, after goldwater loses if the catacombs were good enough for the christians. we are willing to stay underground for us while, as long as it takes. i completely endorse that and democrats do, democrats and institutions. there check but the activists they see the world into your increments. they have studied obsessively except for the polls that count the ones that say raising taxes on the rich vestibular popular, right? there's far too much tactics and not enoug

the cato institute director of constitutional studies, shapiro, welcome one and all.ll start with you. where is the secretary of transportation when we got transportation crisis on our hands that might bring the holidays to a grinding halt? >> he zumba d.c. cocktail circuit. it's amazing, they are pete was supposed to be the best and the brightest. the intellectual rising star of the democratic party this is the guy they were pinning their hopes and dreams to. on the first real crisis taking place on his watch, he's busy sending tweets on columbus day virtual signaling about indigenous peoples that and making sure that every time there's a seem to be seen politico or axios, his name is always in it. always seen at every cocktail party in d.c. congratulations, you are a horrific secretary of transportation but you will make up fantastic one. kennedy: i'll be looking at the root causes at the martini bar. marie, let's discuss because these big companies have to resort to private to get their shelves restocked so walmart, target, home depot, they are talking about charte

here with me to discuss cato institute director of defense policy, eric gomez, what you think about thisn x. >> i'm doing well and i often say a mixed bag when my interests were areas of interest on the news because don't usually study very happy things but it means people are paying attention to stuff like this so i'm not worried about media conflict partly because this has been happening for a while. my friend gerald brown, if you go to his twitter account, he's been tracking activities of these data incursions since last september . kennedy: that's when they started working up? >> what's most interesting is they were staying steady at a relatively low level and the last few weeks or days, it's gone up suddenly so i think it's a cause of concern right now, why are they growing up so quickly so recently? kennedy: doesn't have anything to do with china's real estate problems global market? is at our reaction to that? facebook has a whistleblower on 60 minutes and the next day facebook isn't working and that's all we talk about? >> i think that might be part of the explanation so my own t

here to discuss, the chair of the public understanding economic of the cato institute, author of economic run virus welcome back. >> good to be with you be to this professor is saying we have special metrics and a special way of interviewing people and there's a 20% drop essentially in these narrow areas of consumer confidence in that drop correlates to the same drop we saw in 2008 therefore we are already in a recession, do you agree with that? >> i don't agree with that the author of that paper tends to be pessimistic in the best of times but i do think he's highlighting concern people have at the moment which is the fact that high levels of inflation always the road purchasing power of the dollar and joe biden was warned about this. spring master, larry summers, former treasury secretary said the economy doesn't have a supply capacity to meet all of the demand for pumping in and as a result, you are likely to do is causing too much money chasing too few goods and as a result lead to sustained increases in the level and the danger here is if people start expecting the inflation to go up

. >> we continue with the cato institute with an hour-long discussion on the supreme court's role in mass incarcerations. >> it is my distinct honor to in our annual conference with the annual simon lecture and my honor to introduce this year's lecture, rachel barkow is vice dean and professor of law nyu law school which is also faculty director of the center on the administration of criminal law. her scholarship focuses on applying administrative and constitutional law to criminal justice.ol she's written more than 20 articles and is co-author of a leading criminal like his book. her book demonstrates our criminal justice policies undermine public safety and explains how we can get better outcomes by making changes that allow data and evidence to guide our choices while respecting constitutional limits. she received the nyu distinguished teaching award in 2013 and the law schools distinguished teaching award in 2007. she served on your sentencing commission and manhattan d.a. conviction and integrity policy advisory panel. in 2015 she cofounded a clemency resource center that obtain

todd zywicki on that foundation professor of law at the school the law school senior fellow the cato institute. during the 2020 or served as chair of the task force on consumer financial law. which gave me a unique perspective on these issues. a unique perspective on consumer finance and financial protection during a time of unprecedented challenges and unprecedented acceleration of these trends we have seen with respect to migration towards electronic payments over the last several years. let me make clear at the outset i am neither hand favor of banning cash nor i am in favor of requiring cash. i am sensitive to the issues here. and very sensitive to the issues of financial inclusion and that was a centerpiece of our task force report was how to increase financial inclusion so nobody is left behind. as we see this transition toward a more cashless society to make sure nobody is left behind here also. i'm also aware of the advantages to consumers, to businesses and t the economy from the developments we have seen on the developments we sell this past year. it has been said six months of time

the cato institute -- they have national outreach.dition, you can also reach out to particular parties. the parties have what can get people engaged. at this point, they provide organizing or advice to people on how they should redistrict. we advise people on the policies that go into redistricting, so that those drawing the lines have the best possible. host: concerns about gerrymandering always comes up, but do you think that those concerns are increasing in recent years? have concerns over gerrymandering than bigger than they are right now? guest: the original term of j mentoring comes from massachusetts in 1812. he signed into law a redistricting plan drawn by the massachusetts general court of that state. a newspaper came across it and said this is not a salamander, which it kind of looked like. it is a gerry-mander. it is not new. politics have always been a part of redistricting. host: richmond, virginia. this is martin, an independent. caller: good morning. you guys have answered some of my questions. they are back to the red

. >> we continue with the cato institute with an hour-long discussion on the supreme court's role inincarcerations. >> it is my distinct honor to in our annual conference with the annual

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a discussion from the cato it -- cato institute, and recent supreme court rulings on free court issues. this is about an hour.