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  • "Liberty at the Movies," Cato.org, June 20, 2005
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  • "Left and Right in the Same Sorry Rut," Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2004
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  • "The Sixties, the Eighties, and the Irrelevance of Clinton," Cato.org, September 15, 1998
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  • "A Right to Safer Schools," Washington Post, February 25, 1995
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  • "Yellow Peril Reinfects America," Wall Street Journal, April 7, 1989
  • "Let's Quit the Drug War," New York Times, March 17, 1988
  • "The Who and Why of Big-Bucks Politics," Wall Street Journal, November 15, 1983

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