When The American Enterprise invited three of the country's most caustic wits to look back over the year 1997, eyes rolled, stilettos flashed, and axes swung all around the table. Conservative humorist P. J. O'Rourke (foreign affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone) was joined by British radical Christopher Hitchens(columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair) and commentator Kate O'Beirne (Washington editor of National Review). Senior editor Scott Walter supplied the questions. Continue Here. (The American Enterprise, January 1998)
Friday, January 01, 1999
A Message to Redistributionists
Cato is about ideas. We spend a lot of time talking and thinking about ideas, but not just good ideas. Bad ideas are important, too. In fact, a lot of life operates on bad ideas. And I thought I'd like to talk about a bad idea: closing the global wealth gap. That is a very bad idea. Continue Here. (Cato Institute, 1 May 1997)
The Liberty Manifesto
The Cato Institute has an unusual political cause -- which is no political cause whatsoever. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to that cause, to dedicate ourselves, in other words, to . . . nothing. We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity. We have no "vision thing," as our ex-president would say, or, as our current president would say, we have no Hillary. Continue Here (Cato Institute, 6 May 1993)
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