Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an influential non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) with strong libertarian leanings (despite wide public perception that it is a "conservative" think-tank), headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is named after Cato's Letters, a series of early 18th century British essays expounding the libertarian principles of John Locke. Collected and published in sets of volumes, Cato's Letters could be found in the libraries of American patriots and helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. The pseudonymous authors of the Letters named their essays in turn after Cato the Younger, the defender of republican institutions in Rome.

External links

• Cato's Official Web Site
• Cato's Stance on War in Iraq
• Cato's Stance on Social Security
• Cato's Stance on Federal Spending by the GOP
• Cato's Stance on the Patriot Act
• Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, "The Hot New Americans Get Hotter," Washington Post, November 26, 2002, p. A27.
• Mike Huben, "Criticisms of the CATO Institute," in "Critiques Of Libertarianism."
• Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), CATO Study Confirms Troops on the Border as the Only Workable Means of Preserving U.S. Sovereignty (response to a Cato study proposing "North American integration", i.e. turning the U.S., Mexico, and Canada into a superstate like the EU)
• Dogmatic Libertarians: Over the edge.