Essays
» ”See the World Like Elinor Ostrom,” Ottawa Citizen, October 16, 2009
» ”Economic Inequality and the Mirage of Injustice,” Cato Unbound, October 12, 2009
» ”Go North, Young Man!,” The Atlantic, September 11, 2009
» The Measure of Meaning, Culture11, October 29, 2008
» Thank You for Not Voting, Ottawa Citizen, October 22, 2008
» Why Opting Out Is No Third Way: The Perplexing Banality of Libertarian Paternalism, Reason, October 2008
» Bottoms Up!, Forbes, September 27, 2008
» 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; Policy, Winter 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
» Review of Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin Barber, [pdf] Cato Journal, Volume 27 Number 2, Spring/Summer 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