Online Essays

» The New (Improved) Gilded Age, The Economist, December 19, 2007

» The Great Depression, Reason, December 2007 (Reprinted in The Australia Financial Review, January 25, 2008)

» The Big Confusion, TPM Cafe Book Club, September 12, 2007

» A Partisan Paradigm Shift, The Press-Enterprise, July 21, 2007

» Old Age, Modest Income, and Financial Satisfaction, The American Online, July 2, 2007

» Liberté, Égalité, Malheureux?, National Review Online, May 4, 2007

» In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?” Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 590, April 11, 2007

» The Quest for a Scientific Politics of Happiness, Cato Unbound, April 16, 2007

» Depressed Markets?, Reason, December 2006

» Growth is Good, Prospect, October 2006

» Neuro Wine in Old Bottles, TCS Daily, September 26, 2006

» Love Thy PlayStation, Love Thyself, Slate, May 11, 2006 (with Reihan Salam)

» Review of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman [pdf], Cato Journal, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2006

» Happiness Is . . . Higher Taxes?, Reason, February 2006

» Solidarity: More Than a Feeling, TCS Daily, February 14, 2006

» The Great Depression, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 20, 2005

» Storms of Stupidity on the Op-Ed Pages, Tech Central Station, September 9, 2005

» Obama’s Stale New Deal, the American Spectator Online, June 29, 2005

» Noble Lies, Liberal Purposes, and Personal Retirement Accounts, Cato Institute Social Security Choice Papers, no. 34, June 28, 2005

» Give Us the Real Thing on Social Security, FoxNews.com, May 9, 2005

» Insuring Against the Inevitable, Tech Central Station, March 25, 2005

» Review of Understanding the Process of Economic Change by Douglass C. North [pdf], Cato Journal, Volume 25 Number 1, Winter 2005

» Capitalism and Human Nature, Cato Policy Report, vol. XXVII no. 1, January/February 2005 [pdf version]

» Remitting Disaster, Reason Online, January 14, 2005

» Political Discipline, Not Just Less Pork, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2004

» Sticker Shock, Reason Online, December 13, 2004

» Review of Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker, Brainwash, November 14, 2004

» The Anti-Market Protocols of the Councillor of Zion, Tech Central Station, October 27, 2004

» Meritocracy: The Appalling Ideal?, Tech Central Station, August 11, 2004

» Understanding Political Libertarianism, Tech Central Station, July 28, 2004

» The Fun-Loving Founding Father: Gouverneur Morris, the First Modern American, Reason, July 2004

» Capitalism and Virtue: Review of Dinesh D’Souza’s, The Virtue of Prosperity, Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Spring 2004

» Ideology is Infrastructure, Tech Central Station, January 26, 2004

» What the War Means… for Libertarians, Doublethink, Winter 2003

» Globalization vs. Capitalism, the Dissident, vol. i., no. 1, 2003

» Environmentalism for Humans, Liberzine, March 3, 2001

» What is Morality Good For?: Review of Tara Smith’s Viable Values, Navigator, July 2000