Cato's Websites Go Global

The Cato Institute is now offering websites in many different languages, ranging from English to Arabic to Persian to Portugese to Swahili.

So if you want to get your daily fix of Cato's brand of libertarianism in Chinese or Kurdish, make sure to check out Cato's non-English sites here.

Comments

hale | December 10, 2007, 12:06pm | #

Sorry Nick! I can't enjoy Cato's articles anymore now that I know just how cosmopolitan and elite they are.

J sub D | December 10, 2007, 12:15pm | #

Being ashamedly monolingual, this doesn't directly affect me. Still, cool!

affenkopf | December 10, 2007, 12:21pm | #

Being ashamedly bilingual, this doesn't directly affect me. Where is the German version? We are overrun by socialists!

Ali (formerly iih) | December 10, 2007, 12:21pm | #

They never responded to me on their Arabic site. I offered services and commentary. But nothing back from them at all! They do mention Khaldun as a free-market, and his theories on social evolution (yes the same evolution that Darwin adapted for biological systems later--what a thief ;-) Darwin that is).

Wikinger Elch | December 10, 2007, 12:26pm | #

Affenkopf:

hier.
oder da
ici.

Tom Walls | December 10, 2007, 12:29pm | #

Ali, ask Tom Palmer.

R C Dean | December 10, 2007, 12:34pm | #

Where is the German version?

Does Libertarian even translate into German?

Kazuki | December 10, 2007, 12:41pm | #

No Japanese website? I can only hope.

crimethink | December 10, 2007, 12:42pm | #

R C Dean,

Maybe you should ask von Mises and Hayek...

Taktix® | December 10, 2007, 12:43pm | #

Does Libertarian even translate into German?

R C Dean wins the thread....

No Japanese website? I can only hope.

They have one, but it translated to Super Happy Fun Freedom Tasty Castle. Kinda hard to find the url...

Ali (formerly iih) | December 10, 2007, 12:57pm | #

Tom Walss: May be I should.

Dr. Yogi | December 10, 2007, 1:34pm | #

Has Tancredo announced his boycott of Cato yet?

Ali (formerly iih) | December 10, 2007, 1:51pm | #

Has Tancredo announced his boycott of Cato yet?

Should be:

Has CATO announced its endorsement of Tancredo yet?

Derrick Miller | December 10, 2007, 2:09pm | #

Is it just me, or does it seem like Cato is less relevant these days? They seem like they're afraid to take a stand on anything, lest they appear libertarian.

Friend of Cato | December 10, 2007, 2:53pm | #

Derrick -

it's just you.

standing up for civil rights for Gitmo prisoners:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/boumediene_vs_bush.pdf

on school choice:

http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441361

against SCHIP:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8697

problems with Social Security:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8813

and then there is that little bit on the Iraq War:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7424

including a slap at neo-cons here:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8777

Ali (formerly iih) | December 10, 2007, 3:00pm | #

Derrick -

it's not just you.

Pig Mannix | December 10, 2007, 3:30pm | #

Is it just me, or does it seem like Cato is less relevant these days? They seem like they're afraid to take a stand on anything, lest they appear libertarian.

Cato is very relevant - at least to Cato's own agenda, which they're rarely bashful about declaring "the libertarian position" by fiat.

Unfortunately, a fair number of those positions have a rather dubious libertarian lineage, if any at all, frequently resulting in libertarians of other persuasions giving them an enthusiastic raspberries, which is not entirely undeserved....

Nash | December 10, 2007, 6:23pm | #

"Derrick -

it's just you.

standing up for civil rights for Gitmo prisoners...on school choice:...against SCHIP:...problems with Social Security:...and then there is that little bit on the Iraq War:....including a slap at neo-cons here:...."

But of course, positions like these all point to the natural progression of cheer-leading for....Fred Thompson and Rudy Gulianni?

Morrison | December 11, 2007, 1:30pm | #

My dear Nash,

There is no cheer-leading for such people. Unless you mean this:

"Thompson's defense proposal is a case study in faulty thinking about important security issues. Throwing money at the Pentagon, complacently accepting a host of obsolete commitments to free-riding allies and embracing the folly of nation building is not what the next administration needs to do."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8798

Or maybe you mean this:

"Which brings us back to Fred Thompson. Does he really believe the many questionable assertions in the 2005 report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that he approved? Or was he not really paying much attention? Or has he revised his views since 2005? An enterprising economics and business reporter should ask him."
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/09/19/fred-thompsons-questionable-views-on-us-china-trade/

Or could it be this:

"Giuliani's view of power would be dangerous at any time, but especially after two terms of relentless Bush efforts to weaken the constitutional checks and balances that safeguard our liberty. In 1964, Barry Goldwater declared it "the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power." George W. Bush has forgotten that; Rudy Giuliani rejects it."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8264

Anyway, a think tank cannot "cheer-lead" for a candidate. It's even against the law, as you could find if you would read the tax code about tax-exempt organizations.

Anyway, three cheers for the Cato Institute's promotion of libertarianism all around the world!

Edward Lee | December 11, 2007, 10:22pm | #

Wow. Libertarianism in what, nine or ten languages?!

The Chinese website is fantastic.

Thank you, Cato Institute.

Anders Larsen | December 13, 2007, 7:24am | #

....one in a scandinavian language would also be great. social democratic opinions are really stronly embedded in people's mind here. Heck, they still talk about "the rising gap between rich and poor" even though Denmark is the most equal country in the world. When will this stop?