Writings by Topic: Liberty and Government Power
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Articles |
| Title |
Publication |
Date  |
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| The Founding Fathers warned this could happen |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2026 |
| How Mamdani's socialist creed will hurt New York City |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 2025 |
| Pull the plug on the FCC |
Arguable |
September 23, 2025 |
| Dictators rejoice as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe are silenced |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2025 |
| A student's T-shirt says: 'There are only two genders.' What does the Constitution say? |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2024 |
| The day Phil Donahue and I kept our clothes on |
Arguable |
August 27, 2024 |
| End the Bay State's war on happy hour |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2024 |
| Will a government warning label really make social media safer? |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2024 |
| In Argentina, Milei's exhilarating chainsaw revolution is underway |
The Boston Globe |
May 19, 2024 |
| Navalny is gone, but the 'virus of freedom' is spreading |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2024 |
| The seventh-grader and the First Amendment |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2024 |
| America's elites live in a world of their own |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2024 |
| A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2024 |
| Brookline's phased cigarette ban is unwise, irrational, and patronizing |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2023 |
| The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech |
The Boston Globe |
November 29, 2023 |
| Ayotte isn't wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2023 |
| A free society protects your right to burn a holy book |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2023 |
| The scandal at the Harvard morgue is not a reason for more government |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2023 |
| Does Generation Z love Big Brother? |
Arguable |
June 13, 2023 |
| Resign, Dianne, Resign |
Arguable |
May 9, 2023 |
| 'Pro-choice' or 'pro-abortion'? |
Arguable |
February 14, 2023 |
| The Supreme Court can remind officials how to take a joke |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2022 |
| Sweet lands of liberty |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2022 |
| The authoritarian impulse |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2022 |
| The freedom to uphold an unpopular opinion |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2022 |
| Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2022 |
| The Constitution protects your right to vote — and your right not to |
The Boston Globe |
April 27, 2022 |
| It's a mistake to ban Holocaust denial |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2022 |
| The Passover story is an American story |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 2022 |
| More education choices, fewer education fights |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2022 |
| New Zealand is back in a lockdown time warp |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 2021 |
| The very racist history of gun control |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 2021 |
| A letter to Prince Harry |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2021 |
| The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2021 |
| The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2020 |
| A civil liberties pandemic |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2020 |
| My father survived the Holocaust. That molded my worldview |
Arguable |
January 27, 2020 |
| Politicians are only human |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2020 |
| The counterproductive cruelties of occupational licensing |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2019 |
| Why Hong Kong's protesters fly the Stars and Stripes |
The Boston Globe |
September 12, 2019 |
| On the folly of rent control, right and left agree |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2019 |
| Net neutrality is gone, but the Internet is fine |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2018 |
| San Francisco employees eat at work. City Hall wants to punish them |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2018 |
| Leave Google alone |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2018 |
| Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle — until the government said it wasn't |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 2018 |
| What the Constitution says about cakes and compelled speech |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2017 |
| A free-speech rally, minus the free speech |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2017 |
| Freedom of association is for businesses, too |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2017 |
| The collapse of the taxi-medallion shakedown |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2017 |
| Freedom of speech, even in therapy |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 2017 |
| School choice keeps the peace |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2017 |
| Is that sermon political? |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2017 |
| Freedom of association isn't just for the Rockettes |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 2016 |
| Eminent injustice in cranberry country |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2016 |
| Lottery games online? Scratch that idea |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2016 |
| Cigarettes are hazardous, but some lawmakers are worse |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2016 |
| More firepower than the Marines |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2016 |
| Should you need the government's permission to work? |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2016 |
| Weld for VP? He'd get my vote |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2016 |
| Authoritarian-in-chief |
The Boston Globe |
April 3, 2016 |
| For Americans, global freedom is a mission that crosses party lines |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2016 |
| Dream question was asked, but not answered |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2016 |
| Our inalienable right to free trade |
The Boston Globe |
December 20, 2015 |
| The power to regulate is the power to destroy |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2015 |
| Strike down the Supreme Court's 'buffer zone' |
The Boston Globe |
September 6, 2015 |
| Something worse than the IRS awaits greedy televangelists |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2015 |
| Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2015 |
| Gun rights should cross state lines |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2015 |
| Same-sex weddings, and the right not to perform them |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2014 |
| For casinos — and for repealing the casino law |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 2014 |
| Eminent disaster |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 2014 |
| Government is dangerous. Handle with care. |
The Boston Globe |
August 11, 2013 |
| Words to transform the world |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2013 |
| Employers are not immigration officers |
The Boston Globe |
June 16, 2013 |
| Things will be the same again |
The Boston Globe |
April 16, 2013 |
| Quakers, conscience, and contraception |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2012 |
| Why should the state license drivers? |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2012 |
| A deep breath for free speech |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2011 |
| Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2011 |
| Making Washington inconsequential |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2011 |
| The spurned millionaire's vendetta |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2011 |
| How many lawmakers does it take to. . . . |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2011 |
| Philosophy, faith, and the Fourth of July |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2011 |
| The indispensable freedom of association |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 2011 |
| No room at the table for the Muslim Brothers |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 2011 |
| Obama, the Great Deregulator? |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2011 |
| Warning labels and the nanny-state |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2010 |
| Were the Founders hypocrites? |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2010 |
| Give peace a chance with government-free schools |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2010 |
| Rand Paul and the right to be odious |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 2010 |
| Freedom takes more than technology |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 2010 |
| How to fix 'the mistake on the lake' |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2010 |
| A ride in Big Brother's Audi |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2010 |
| 'The freedom to think for ourselves' |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2010 |
| What 'right' to health care? |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2009 |
| '1984' + 60 |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2009 |
| No To Mandatory Calorie Counts |
NPR: Talk of the Nation |
January 12, 2009 |
| Want a warning label with those fries? |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 2009 |
| Let government mind your own business |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2008 |
| Regulating taxis the Soviet way |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 2008 |
| When Mr. Smith goes to Washington -- sell! |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2008 |
| The verdict that keeps on taking |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2006 |
| Silencers in the marketplace of ideas |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2006 |
| Phone-record hysteria at the ACLU |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 2006 |
| Notes from Harry Browne |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2006 |
| 'Freedom for the thought we hate' |
The Boston Globe |
March 1, 2006 |
| Eminent injustice in New London |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2005 |
| The power of presidential solidarity |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2005 |
| The pirates of eminent domain |
The Boston Globe |
February 27, 2005 |
| Medical marijuana: the real stakes |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2004 |
| The abusers of eminent domain |
The Boston Globe |
September 30, 2004 |
| Giving thanks for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2003 |
| Meanwhile, in Cuba, the tyranny goes on |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 2003 |
| Bikers demand their 'civil rights' |
The Boston Globe |
November 29, 2001 |
| Remembering the 'wall of shame' |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2001 |
| On free trade, do more than talk the talk |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2001 |
| The battle of Fort Trumbull |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 2001 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2001 |
| A rush to censor |
The Boston Globe |
April 6, 2000 |
| The wall came tumbling down |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 1999 |
| Campaign reform, or campaign censorship? |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 1999 |
| Who will bring Castro to justice? |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 1999 |
| The US suffered through turmoil in '98. That is, 1798. |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 1998 |
| The bullies' next target: junk food |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 1998 |
| Question 2: An insult to honest politics |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 1998 |
| When smoking is outlawed, only lawmakers will smoke |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 1997 |
| On college campuses, all is not yet lost |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 1997 |
| The tyranny of the IRS |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 1997 |
| Webster's diplomacy — and ours |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 1997 |
| If the city can't plow the streets, how is Boston 400 going to work? |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 1997 |
| Why is the state so secretive about its standardized tests? |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 1996 |
| The faith that links Thanksgiving and Chanukah |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 1996 |
| Imagine, a candidacy based on principle |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 1996 |
| The founders' formula: faith and liberty |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1996 |
| Silence on slavery |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 1996 |
| Tax code tyranny |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 1995 |
| Face it: Rent control is dead |
The Boston Globe |
November 29, 1994 |
| Are there limits to congressional power? |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 1994 |
| Questions 4 and 5: power to the people |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 1994 |
| At stake in Question 9: fairness for property owners |
The Boston Globe |
September 8, 1994 |
| Unbuckling the voters |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 1994 |
| False doubts about breast implants |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 1994 |
| The day the Nazis came for my father's family |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 1994 |
| Why did Reverend Williams die? |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 1994 |
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Book Reviews |
| Book Title |
Publication |
Date |
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Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
by Jeff Benedict |
Commentary |
May 2009 |
One Nation, Two Cultures
by Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Azure |
Winter 2001 |
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