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David Boaz
David Boaz is the author, most recently, of The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to Our Liberties. He is also author of Libertarianism: A Primer and editor of The Libertarian Reader, both published by the Free Press in 1997. He is also the editor of Left, Right, and Babyboom: America's New Politics; Assessing the Reagan Years; The Crisis in Drug Prohibition; and Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City; and coeditor of An American Vision: Policies for the '90s, Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, and The Cato Handbook for Congress. An expert on such issues as the failure of big government, the politics of the baby-boom generation, drug prohibition, and educational choice, Boaz writes widely on those subjects and others in such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. Two of his essays from the New York Times were included in Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy. He is currently executive vice president of the Cato Institute. He previously served as editor of New Guard magazine and executive director of the Council for a Competitive Economy. Boaz is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Visit David Boaz at www.libertarianism.org.
Books by David Boaz at Amazon.com
An American Vision: Politics for the '90s
Assessing the Reagan Years (editor)
Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals for America
Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress
The Crisis in Drug Prohibition (editor)
Education in the Inner City
Left, Right & Baby Boom: America's New Politics
Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City (editor)
The Libertarian Reader (editor)
Libertarianism: A Primer
Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century (editor)
The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to Our Liberties
Toward Liberty: The Ideas That Are Changing the World
Contributions
- Privatize Marriage: A simple solution to the gay-marriage debate, by David Boaz, April 24, 1998
- Domestic Justice, by David Boaz, January 4, 1995
- Don't Forget the Kids, by David Boaz, September 10, 1994