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2015 Columns
Professor Gruber and the Leftist Elite (2015 Jan)
Minimum Wage Laws Versus Freedom (2015 Feb)
Start-Up NY – The Wrong Way (2015 Mar)
Hotel Wi-Fi Charges Are Myopic (2015 Apr)
Beware Of Commercial-Free Childhood ( 2015 May)
Mars Candy, Tainted Policy (2015 Jun)
Goodbye Cable TV Bundle (2015 Jul)
Damaging Effects of Overtime Rules (2015 Aug)
Odious Pay Ratio Disclosure Law (2015 Sep)
Unreliable Psychology Research (2015 Oct)
Government Doesn’t Own You (2015 Nov)
You Are Not Your Ancestors (2015 Dec)
2017 Columns
The Upside of Fake News (2017 Jan)
Tricky Pricing Reveals Contempt (2017 Feb)
Boycotts Clarify Issues (2017 Mar)
Restaurant Surcharge, Bitter Taste (2017 Apr)
Student Pledge, Then Student Regret (2017 May)
Reviews – Signed by Anonymous (2017 Jun)
Amazon – Food Stamp Junkie (2017 Jul)
Google Pay Disparity (2017 Aug)
Mistaking Speech For Violence (2017 Sep)
Malignant Goals of the Left (2017 Oct)
Leftist Attack on Successful Leftists (2017 Nov)
Traveling Sales Reps Done Right (2017 Dec)
2018 Columns
Millennials Choose Socialism (2018 Jan)
Let Google Be Leftist (2018 Feb)
Paying for Child Care (2018 Mar)
Paying Employees Rapidly (2018 Apr)
Do Not Regulate Facebook (2018 May)
Cutting Cable TV – It’s Personal (2018 Jun)
Cultural Appropriation Debunked (2018 Jul)
Colleges Use, Then Deny Quotas (2018 Aug)
Foolish Rebuttal to Medicare for All (2018 Sep)
California’s Corporate Assault (2018 Oct)
The Left is Inherently Coercive (2018 Nov)
Student Loan Pushers (2018 Dec)
2019 Columns
Leftists Against Science (2019 Jan)
Corrupt Campaign Financing (2019 Feb)
Taxing The Rich Is Leftist Virtue (2019 Mar)
Justice or Social Justice, Not Both (2019 Apr)
Facebook Versus Freedom (2019 May)
Facial Recognition Is Not New (2019 Jun)
Professor Advocates Grand Theft (2019 Jul)
Wealth Inequality Focus is Toxic (2019 Aug)
Government Attacks Social Media (2019 Sep)
College President Vs Free Speech (2019 Oct)
Leftists Aim to Own Your Life (2019 Nov)
Medicare-for-All is Doable (2019 Dec)
2004 Columns
Is Pharma-Sponsored Research Tainted? (2004 Oct)
Stakeholder Theory – Reject It (2004 Nov)
The Diminished Outcomes Fallacy (2004 Dec)
2016 Columns
When Animosity Is Expected (2016 Jan)
In Praise of Salary Disclosure (2016 Feb)
Apple Defiance is Proper (2016 Mar)
Goodbye to Restaurant Tips (2016 Apr)
Government IRA – Frying Pan to Fire (2016 May)
E*TRADE Traitor Blunder (2016 Jun)
Guaranteed Income, Reap Disaster (2016 Jul)
GMO Food Strikes Back (2016 Aug)
Yes To Physician Ratings (2016 Sep)
Save the $100 Bill (2016 Oct)
Hands Off Payday Lenders (2016 Nov)
Election Polls Won’t Improve (2016 Dec)
2020 Columns
Food Deserts And Dollar Stores (2020 Jan)
2020 Columns
Ditch “Plus Tax And Shipping” (2020 Feb)
Refusing Customers is OK (2020 Mar)
In Person Meetings Must Get Better (2020 Apr)
Get Past the Masks (2020 May)
Strong Encryption is Forever (2020 Jun)
Leftists Need Double Standards (2020 Jul)
Free Market Fixes Mobile Privacy (2020 Aug)
New York Pols Ruin Dining (2020 Sep)
Social Media Should Come Clean (2020 Oct)
Political Polls Are Finished (2020 Nov)
Fact Checkers Are Hired Thugs (2020 Dec)
2021 Columns
Encourage Opposing Views (2021 Jan)
Equality Or Equity – Not Both (2021 Feb)
Wishing For A Wealth Tax (2021 Mar)
Individualism Cures Marxism (2021 Apr)
Defeat Woke Propaganda (2021 May)
Making Fact Checkers Worse (2021 Jun)
Defeat CRT, Ditch Schools (2021 Jul)
Media Lies Help Liberty (2021 Aug)
Apolitical Is Impossible (2021 Sep)
Big Tech And Censorship (2021 Oct)
Covid Wrecks Authority (2021 Nov)
Fight Against Woke (2021 Dec)
2022 Columns
Parents – Control The Schools (2022 Jan)
Do Your Own Research? Yes (2022 Feb)
Masks Are Forever (2022 Mar)
Inflation Taints Relationships (2022 Apr)
Forced Voting Is Tyranny (2022 May)
Get Woke, Go Broke – Perhaps (2022 Jun)
Inflation Kills Brand Loyalty (2022 Jul)
Don’t Conscript Women (2022 Aug)
Do Leftists Hate The Constitution? (2022 Sep)
Unite or Divide Americans (2022 Oct)
What Causes Bad Weather (2022 Nov)
Defeat CRT Outside Of Schools (2022 Dec)
2023 Columns
ESG – Leftist Investing (2023 Jan)
Reparations Will Work (2023 Feb)
Inoculate Against Woke (2023 Mar)
Beware School Libraries (2023 Apr)
Malicious AI? Deal With It (2023 May)
Subway Vigilantism (2023 Jun)
Ban TikTok? Reconsider (2023 Jul)
Fake Goods Vs Reality (2023 Aug)
Contempt For Customers (2023 Sep)
American Distrust Is Good (2023 Oct)
Paying NYC Subway Fare (2023 Nov)
Regulate Universities? No! (2023 Dec)
2024 columns
Woke Is Always Wrong (2024 Jan)
Thriving In Leftist Universities (2024 Feb)
Professors Can Sabotage DEI (2024 Mar)
Displace ESG Investing (2024 Apr)
NYC Stupid Pot Laws (2024 May)
Tell Students: Think For Yourselves (2024 Jun)
The End Of Comity (2024 Jul)
Stifling Online Advertising (2024 Aug)
Coercive Force In Business (2024 Sep)
Misinformation? Get Over It! (2024 Oct)
2005 Columns
American Girl And Politics (2005 Nov)
Beware Of “Economic Justice” (2005 May)
Customers Are Often Wrong (2005 Apr)
DTC Drug Advertising (2005 Jun)
Economic Inequality And Justice (2005 Jan)
Eminent Domain And Ethics (2005 Aug)
Exorbitant Oil Profits (2005 Dec)
Fat In Foods (2005 Sep)
Giving Back To Society (2005 Jul)
Kindness And Cruelty (2005 Feb)
Making Movies “Clean” (2005 Oct)
Rational Employment Policies (2005 Mar)
Wal-Mart’s Minimum Wage Folly (2005 Nov – 2 of 2)
2006 Columns
AMD, Intel, and Antitrust (2006 Sep)
Birth-Control Pills And Rights (2006 Feb)
Demagogues and Gasoline (2006 May)
Drugs from Canada (2006 Aug)
Food, Children, And The IOM (2006 Jan)
Investment Scams and Ethics (2006 Oct)
Murray’s New Welfare State (2006 Apr)
Net Neutrality Exposed (2006 Jul)
Representative Frank’s Deal (2006 Mar)
Responding to CSR (2006 Jun)
The Minimum Wage Drama (2006 Dec)
Tobacco And Sincerity (2006 Nov)
2007 Columns
“Income-Inequality” Problem (2007 Nov)
A La Carte Cable and Politics (2007 May)
Bank of America’s Credit Card (2007 Sep)
Immigrants and Welfare (2007 Jun)
Meddling with Wireless Service (2007 Aug)
Merck, Gardasil and Coercion (2007 Mar)
Military Draft Violates Rights (2007 Jan)
Prohibiting English-Only (2007 Dec)
Reducing Restaurant Portions (2007 Apr)
Senator Webb and Envy (2007 Feb)
The DTV Converter Box (2007 Jul)
Time’s Call for Servitude (2007 Oct)
2008 Columns
A Taste for Cloned-Food (2008 Feb)
An Ocean of Bail-Outs (2008 Nov)
Are Payday Lenders Legitimate? (2008 Mar)
Ceding Ethics to Leftists (2008 Jun)
Cynical Tax Proposal (2008 Sep)
Government-Caused Calamity (2008 Oct)
Legislating Bondage (2008 Aug)
Menus and Calories in New York (2008 May)
None of Your Business (2008 Dec)
Psychology’s Blind Spot (2008 Jan)
Stealthy Pricing (2008 Jul)
Who Buys Counterfeit Watches? (2008 Apr)
2009 Columns
Capitalism Is Not Corporatism (2009 Jun)
Fixing the Republican Party (2009 Apr)
Government-Dictated Pay (2009 Nov)
Health Care Across State Lines (2009 Dec)
Investing in Evasion (2009 Jan)
Poison Beverage Tax (2009 Oct)
Premium ObamaCare (2009 Aug)
Prudence versus Prosperity (2009 Feb)
State-Sponsored Docility (2009 May)
The Spider, the Fly, the Bail-Out (2009 Mar)
Three Cheers for Boycotts (2009 Sep)
Toxic Business Ethics (2009 Jul)
2010 Columns
A Plea to Redistribute Wealth (2010 Dec)
Fully Private Social Security (2010 Sep)
Government Is The Referee (2010 Feb)
High School Trojan Horse (2010 Mar)
Leftist Ethics for MBAs (2010 Jun)
Republican Revulsion to ObamaCare (2010 Apr)
Secret Global Warming Skeptics (2010 Jan)
Tax the Rich Less (2010 Oct)
Thuggery versus Wal-Mart (2010 Jul)
Wealthy Leftists and Taxes (2010 Nov)
Welfare Breeds Animosity (2010 Aug)
Who Decides Carry-on Fees? (2010 May)
2011 Columns
Big Bang From Food Stamps (2011 Sep)
Business-Friendly Is Not Enough (2011 Feb)
Dismantling the Welfare State (2011 May)
Frustrated Global Warmists (2011 Aug)
Inventor Behaving Badly (2011 Jul)
IRS Bounty Hunters (2011 Oct)
Leading Students to Serfdom (2011 Dec)
Leftist Prophesy Fails (2011 Nov)
Protecting Sleeping Bags (2011 Jan)
Republicans and Negative Income Tax (2011 Mar)
Should Facebook Tout Republicans? (2011 Jun)
Warning Labels for Food Stamps (2011 Apr)
2012 Columns
Playing by the Same Rules (2012 Dec)
Psychology Fights Obesity (2012 Nov)
Election Will Increase Divisiveness (2012 Sep)
Medical Shortage Crisis (2012 Aug)
Soda Ban Goes Too Far (2012 Jul)
Airlines’ Full Disclosure (2012 Feb)
Poisoning the Internship Well (2012 Jun)
Buffett Rule Persists (2012 May)
Boasting of Double Standards (2012 Apr)
College Heads Are Shocked (2012 Mar)
Republicans’ Half A Loaf (2012 Jan)
Uninterested Decide Election (2012 Oct)
2013 Columns
Spreading Tax Misery (2013 Jan)
Outing Gun Owners (2013 Feb)
Biggest Food Stamp Junkies (2013 Mar)
Bloomberg’s Failed Soda Ban (2013 Apr)
TurboTax Fights the Fed (2013 May)
Medical Conflicts of Interest are Double-Edged (2013 Jun)
GM: Counterfeit Free Enterprise (2013 Jul)
Addicted to ObamaCare (2013 Aug)
Addressing Mainstream Media Bias (2013 Sep)
Responding to Government Nudges (2013 Oct)
Legalizing Foreign Drugs (2013 Nov)
ObamaCare Is Coercion, Period (2013 Dec)
2014 Columns
Obama’s Income Inequality Gambit (2014 Jan)
Republicans Surrender to War on Poverty (2014 Feb)
AEI Embraces Social Justice (2014 Mar)
ObamaCare Failure and Charter School Success Serve Freedom (2014 Apr)
Smartphone Kill Switch Threatens Liberty (2014 May)
Mugshot Shakedown (2014 Jun)
Polarized America is Good (2014 Jul)
Piketty’s Flawed Premises (2014 Aug)
OkCupid Experiments Are Mostly OK (2014 Sep)
Reclining Seat Airline Blunder (2014 Oct)
Amazon and Coercive Force (2014 Nov)
Berkeley Soda Tax Versus Autonomy (2014 Dec)
2020 Columns
Columns for 2020 are stored here.
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