Taos, New Mexico
Governor Gary Johnson's birthday
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January 24
Washington, D.C.
Burning Man
6:00 pm
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Featuring Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (@GroverNorquist); Mark Lutter, President, Institute for Innovative Governance, (@MarkLutter); Jeremy Tunnell, Cofounder, Thumbtack, (@jeremytunnell); Robert Mariani, Freelance journalist, (@robert_mariani); moderated by Kat Murti, Senior Digital Outreach Manager, Cato Institute (@KatMurti)
For just one week every year, roughly 70,000 people from around the world come together in the Nevada desert to create Black Rock City, home to Burning Man, billed by its organizers as an “annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance.”
Because cash exchanges and the barter system are largely banned in Black Rock City (Burning Man instead relies on something called the “gift economy”), Burning Man is often seen as an attack on conventional libertarian principles.
However, as a voluntary community driven by freedom of association, self-governance, nonviolent dispute mediation, and emergent order, Burning Man is in many ways a quintessential example of the libertopian ideal.
On Wednesday, January 24th, please join the Cato Institute for a robust conversation about what libertarians can learn from Burning Man — and how these lessons can be applied to policy and philosophy.
If you can’t make it to the event, you can watch it live online and join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoDigital. Follow @CatoEventson Twitter to get future event updates and videos from the Cato Institute.
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January 25
Washington, D.C.
School Choice: The Non-Academic Imperative
Featuring Neal McCluskey (@NealMcCluskey), Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Corey DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey), Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
Like the country’s overall education discussion, the national school choice debate is far too often reduced to “which schools get better test scores” and maybe even “who gets kids to graduation.” But there is so much more to education than blunt academic outcome measures, including shaping character, transmitting culture, and just plain advancing freedom.
In this special, National School Choice Week Facebook Live event, join the Cato Center for Educational Freedom crew to tackle these far deeper, arguably far more important goals and desires for education. We’ll be taking your questions via Facebook and Twitter, using #CatoCEF. Join the conversation!
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January 30
Tuscaloosa, AL
Richard Rothstein – The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
125 ten Hoor Hall , University of Alabama
125 ten Hoor Hall , University of Alabama
Cost: Free and open to the public
The History Department is hosting a talk Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.
This event is open to the public; light refreshments will be served.
Contact Info: David Beito, dbeito@ua.edu
Must puudel
