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Title Publication Date
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
The battle of Fort Trumbull The Boston Globe July 26, 2001
The wall came tumbling down The Boston Globe November 8, 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

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
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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