After thousands of episodes over nearly 18 years, I've moved on from the Cato Daily podcast,

but in the interim, I, along with some of you, have selected some favorites.

I hope they resonate with our current moment and continue to spark the desire to defend liberty.

Thank you for listening.

This is the Cato Daily podcast for Wednesday, November 1st, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown. On matters of

conscience, who governs and who owns your successes and your failures? And what does it truly mean to tell some authority a short, simple, no?

Historically, it's at best a mixed bag. Jim Audison is a professor of economics at Wake

Forest University. He spoke at Cato Club 200 in October on some critical moments in the history

of liberty. It's a great honor to be here, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for the

honor of talking to you at the Cato Club 200 retreat. I'd like to thank Peter and the other organizers who brought me out here.

And I'd also like to thank you not only for the time tonight, but also for the work that

you have done to support a free society.

You know, these are perilous times for supporters of a free society.

Maybe not the most perilous times there have ever been.

Last week, I was in China at a conference on Adam Smith.

Just think about that for a second.

It's a week-long conference for graduate students and some new PhDs called Adam Smith's Enlightened World,

and I was one of the speakers,

and I led some seminars.

This is also, you may know, some of you may know, that in just a couple of weeks, the

National Congress of the Communist Party is taking place in China and Beijing.

That happens every five years.

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