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Opinion and Commentary
"When Government Slippery Slope Goes Vertical," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 2009
"Can the Republicans Grasp Opportunity for Revival?," Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 11, 2009
"Brain-dead Conservatives," DC Examiner, October 4, 2009
"Abandoning Obama?," Detroit Free Press, August 14, 2009
"GOP Needs Fewer Puritans, More Small-Government Conservatives," Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 5, 2009
"Will Specter Turn the Senate Left?," Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2009
"Obama's Shock Doctrine," Guardian, February 12, 2009
"To Cut Government Purse Strings, Just Say No," Investor's Business Daily, February 9, 2009
"Turning the Economy over to Politicians," RealClearPolitics.com, January 29, 2009
"Politics and Corruption, Together Again," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 6, 2009
"Bush and Obama Opt for Corporatism over Freewheeling Capitalist Economy," Investor's Business Daily, December 17, 2008
"How Far Left Will Obama Go?," Orange County Register, November 12, 2008
"Equal Opportunity Corrupters," American Spectator, September 26, 2008
"Our Collectivist Candidates," The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2008
"The Libertarian Voter," Washington Times, April 28, 2008
"Focus on Big Financial Picture, Not Televangelists," DallasNews, April 16, 2008
"Starbucks and 'Laissez Faire'," The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2008
"The Hillarys and the Huckabees," Lima News, March 13, 2008
"Implausible Choice," Washington Times, March 2, 2008
"Bill Buckley Is Dead. Has Conservatism Died with Him?," San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 2008
"Let My Readers Go!," Forbes, February 13, 2008
"That Two-for-One Deal? Hmm...," Star Telegram, January 11, 2008
"Shakeup in Iowa Changes the Outlook for Both Parties," San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2008
"Clinton and Giuliani Would Grab Even More Power Than Bush Did," Union Leader, December 11, 2007
"Deregulating Education," The Politic - Yale University, November 10, 2007
"Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt," Reason, September 28, 2007
"For Staff Bonuses, No Dollar Left Behind," The Hill, September 5, 2007
"Libertarians, Beware the Rigid Reign of Rudy," Daily News, May 30, 2007
"Private Property Saved Jamestown, And With It, America," Cato.org, May 14, 2007
"Where Are the Anti-Communist Movies?," TCSdaily.com, May 2, 2007
"It Takes a Hillage," TCSdaily.com, March 27, 2007
"A Republican Party for the Future," Examiner.com, February 2, 2007
"Examining the Libertarian Vote in Depth," by David Kirby and David Boaz, TCSdaily.com, December 11, 2006
"Rest in Peace, Milton Friedman," Cato.org, November 19, 2006
"Losing Libertarians," Washington Times, November 6, 2006
"Marriage Measure Is an Amendment Too Far," Examiner.com, October 30, 2006
"The Libertarian Vote," by David Boaz and David Kirby, Cato.org, October 23, 2006
"Chicago, Chicago, That Coddlin' Town," Fox News (Online), September 1, 2006
"Spending: Dems Still Don't Get It," New York Post, August 28, 2006
"Clinton May Lose the Independents," Cato.org, August 5, 2006
"Parasite Economy Latches onto New Host," Salt Lake Tribune, May 10, 2006
"Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish," Cato.org, May 8, 2006
"The Man Who Would Not Be King," Cato.org, February 20, 2006
"Libertarian Orphans," The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2006
"Last-minute Liberalism," DC Examiner, January 27, 2006
"Ginsburg in the "Balance"," Reason (Online), January 19, 2006
"The Lobbyist Scandals," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 15, 2006
"A Piece of the Action," American Spectator, December 29, 2005
"The Season of Taking," Reason (Online), December 23, 2005
"Time for New Thinking About Poverty," Cato.org, October 10, 2005
"The Big Government Building Boom," New York Post, October 3, 2005
"Franklin Delano Bush," Cato.org, September 29, 2005
"Catastrophe in Big Easy Demonstrates Big Government's Failure," Cato.org, September 19, 2005
"Free PBS," DC Examiner, August 18, 2005
"Republicans Display the Arrogance of Power," Cato.org, August 11, 2005
"Top Ten Reasons to Privatize Public Broadcasting," Fox News (Online), July 25, 2005
"Unnatural Selection," Cato.org, July 11, 2005
"Defund PBS," The Baltimore Sun, June 27, 2005
"Liberty at the Movies," Cato.org, June 20, 2005
"Congress's Latest Christmas Tree Bill," Cato.org, May 13, 2005
"No Federalism on the Right," Fox News (Online), May 13, 2005
"Collateral Damage from the Nuclear Option," Cato.org, May 5, 2005
"Contract Out," Reason (Online), April 28, 2005
"Who's Pro-Choice Now?," Cato.org, April 27, 2005
"Filibuster Flip-Flops," American Spectator, April 25, 2005
"Sorting Out Rights," San Francisco Examiner, April 12, 2005
"Social Security Reform Would Help Workers," Cato.org, March 19, 2005
"For Many, Taxes Leave Nothing to Add to 'Add-Ons'," The Hill, March 10, 2005
"The Budget Two-Step," Cato.org, February 22, 2005
"Ayn Rand at 100," Cato.org, February 2, 2005
"Congress Should Make Tough Choices," Cato.org, January 27, 2005
"Congress Should Restrain the President," Cato.org, January 18, 2005
"A Free and Prosperous New Year," Cato.org, January 6, 2005
"The New Austerity," Cato.org, November 28, 2004
"What to Be Thankful For," Washington Times, November 25, 2004
"No Mandate: The Anti-Kerry Election," Fox News (Online), November 3, 2004
"Left and Right in the Same Sorry Rut," Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2004
"Obesity and "Public Health"?," Cato.org, July 20, 2004
"The Greatest Story Ever Mistold," Cato.org, July 9, 2004
"What Are We Teaching Our Kids?," Cato.org, July 7, 2004
"Remembering Ronald Reagan," Cato.org, June 7, 2004
"Bush, Kerry, and Partisan Hypocrisy," Cato.org, May 25, 2004
"Hey, Big Spender: What Part of NO Don't You Understand?," Cato.org, February 17, 2004
"The Bush Betrayal," Cato.org, November 30, 2003
"The Selective "Right to Choose"," Cato.org, November 5, 2003
"Grand Old Party of Immigrants?," New York Post, October 25, 2003
"Too Nice for Talk Radio?," Investor's Business Daily, September 8, 2003
"SARS and the Bureaucratic Creep of "Public Health"," Cato.org, June 18, 2003
"The Death Tax for the Other 98 Percent of Us," Fox News (Online), February 11, 2003
"Bush's Third Way Betrays True Conservatism," Australian, January 31, 2003
"Democrats and the Right to Choose -- What?," Fox News (Online), January 28, 2003
"Townsend Learned Her Political Tricks from Glendening," Cato.org, August 27, 2002
"Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman," Cato.org, July 31, 2002
"25 Years of Political Change," Fox News (Online), May 21, 2002
"Karen Hughes Left the White House for her Family -- Seriously," New York Post, April 26, 2002
"Scottish Tribes Provide Example to Afghanistan," National Review (Online), March 13, 2002
"The Scandal that Wasn't," Cato.org, February 15, 2002
"Unions vs. Education: Teachers Unions Beat the Latest Reform Initiative," National Review (Online), November 20, 2001
"Turning to Government," Cato.org, November 2, 2001
"Responding to the Attack on America," Cato.org, October 12, 2001
"Attacks on American Values," Cato.org, October 1, 2001
"Karen Hughes, the Power Behind the Curtain," Cato.org, August 18, 2001
"Congress Trashes Local Control of Schools," Cato.org, June 23, 2001
"Don't Put Slavery in the Flag," Cato.org, April 16, 2001
"Bush's Tiny Tax Cut," Cato.org, April 3, 2001
"Freedom at the Oscars," Cato.org, March 24, 2001
"Pardon Abuse: Deja Vu," Cato.org, March 7, 2001
"One Bad and Eight Good Reasons to Cut Taxes," Cato.org, February 28, 2001
"A Liberal President, at Last," Cato.org, January 19, 2001
"Bush's Opportunity," Cato.org, January 4, 2001
"Al Gore, Gov. Glendening, And Lord Bolingbroke," Cato.org, October 26, 2000
""Left" Out of Media Coverage," Cato.org, September 7, 2000
"The Theft of Microsoft," Cato.org, July 27, 2000
"Gary Johnson Is Right," Albuquerque Journal, August 23, 1999
"A Snapshot View of a Complex World," IntellectualCapital.com, July 15, 1999
"Drug Legalization, Criminalization, and Harm Reduction (Excerpts)," Cato.org, June 16, 1999
"Let the Children Go," Cato.org, March 22, 1999
"Illiteracy -- The Bad News and the Good," Cato.org, January 20, 1999
"Key Concepts of Libertarianism," Cato.org, January 1, 1999
"Preface for the Japanese Edition of Libertarianism: A Primer," Cato.org, November 21, 1998
"The Sixties, the Eighties, and the Irrelevance of Clinton," Cato.org, September 15, 1998
"How the Republicans and Democrats Maintained Their Market Share," Cato.org, August 14, 1998
"The Hydra-Headed Drug Business," Cato.org, June 30, 1998
"Parasite Economy Latches onto New Host," Washington Times, April 14, 1998
"Government Far Too Intrusive," Cato.org, October 6, 1997
"The Arrogance of Politics," Cato.org, September 17, 1997
"The Separation of Art and State," Cato.org, August 14, 1997
"Objectivists and Libertarians," IOSJournal, August 1, 1997
"Privatize Marriage," Slate, April 25, 1997
"Creating a Framework for Utopia," Futurist, December 24, 1996
"Chrysler, Microsoft, and Industrial Policy," Cato.org, November 8, 1996
"Parents vs. School Officials: Who Decides?," Washington Times, October 17, 1996
"Opting Out of Government Failure," Cato.org, September 10, 1996
"Expansive Solutions," Cato.org, September 27, 1995
"A Right to Safer Schools," Cato.org, February 25, 1995
"Don't Forget the Kids," The New York Times, September 10, 1994
"Yellow Peril Reinfects America," The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 1989
"Let's Quit the Drug War," The New York Times, March 17, 1988
"The Who and Why of Big-Bucks Politics," The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 1983
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