Publications

• “K-12 School Choice Will Improve Higher Education,” American Spectator (April 13, 2024).
• “The Secret History of the School Choice Left,” Spectator World (April 4, 2024).
• “The Generations We Piled with Debt Are Here – and Rightly Disturbed,” American Conservative (April 2, 2024). 
• “Microschool Incentives Could Stem Commercial Real Estate Crisis,” American Spectator (March 16, 2024).
• “How to Actually Drain the Swamp?” American Conservative (February 23, 2024).
• “The Trouble with the Progressives’ Proposed Wealth Tax,” Spectator World (February 13, 2024).
• “Christian Nationalism Benefits All Americans,” American Spectator (February 4, 2024).
• “The Real Reason People Are Flocking to Red States,” Spectator World (January 9, 2024).
• “Soaring Debt Will Fracture the Democrat Party,” American Spectator (December 31, 2023).
• “The U.S. Debt Is Getting Uglier — And That’s the Plan,” American Conservative (December 16, 2023).
• “Biased Remedies,” Salvo (Number 67, Winter 2023), pp. 14-15.
• “How Progressivism Locks the Left into a Suicide Pact,” Spectator World (December 8, 2023).
• “Solzhenitsyn: Defeat Progressivism Through Conversation,” American Spectator (November 27, 2023).
• “As America’s Fiscal Storm Approaches, Government Prepares to Save Itself,” Spectator World (November 2, 2023).
• “When College Presidents Were America’s Conscience,” American Conservative (October 30, 2023).
• “What Exactly Is the New Space Race All About?” Spectator World (September 30, 2023).
• “The Coming of K-12 School Choice Will Also Change Higher Education,” American Conservative (September 27, 2023).
• “What Will It Take for Blue States to Adopt School Choice?” The Federalist (September 14, 2023).
• “Government Therapy,” Salvo (Number 66, Fall 2023), pp. 16-17.
• “The Great Untethering,” American Thinker (August 31, 2023).
• “Fearful Worship of a Climate Idol,” American Conservative (August 21, 2023).
• “Biden’s Green Agenda Pokes a Big Hole in America’s Social Safety Net,” Spectator World (August 19, 2023).
• “Progressivism Is Aggravating America’s Mental Health Crisis,” American Spectator (July 26, 2023).
• “The Classic Psychology Text That Predicted Today’s Urban Decay,” American Thinker (July 18, 2023).
• “How AI Could Shrink Government,” Spectator World (July 3, 2023).
• “School Choice Will Supercharge the American Economy,” American Thinker (June 20, 2023).
• “Not Fooling Anyone,” American Conservative (May 20, 2023).
• “Forget Electric Cars: America Should Invest in Electric Roads,” Spectator World (May 14,2023).
• “Will School Choice Destroy the Democratic Party?” Spectator World (April 17, 2023).
• “Public Sector Unions Threaten Our Fiscal Future,” American Conservative (March 31, 2023).
• “The Lack of Trust in Joe Biden’s Government Is Dangerous,” Spectator World (March 3, 2023).
• “How Teachers’ Unions Could Unwittingly Usher in School Choice,” Spectator World (February 15, 2023).
• “The Doomsday Clock Has Been Corrupted by Ideology,” Spectator World (February 6, 2023).
• “Pandemic Schools and Religious Renewal,” National Affairs (Number 54, Winter 2023), pp. 25-35.
• “How the Population Scare Predicted Today’s Climate Hysteria,” Spectator World (January 12, 2023).
• “Fusion Energy and the Coming Fight for the Moon,” Spectator World (December 30, 2022).
• “What Did the Midterms Really Tell Us?” American Conservative (December 21, 2922).
• “How Hating Big Oil Undermines the Environment,” Spectator World (December 11, 2022).
• “The Dysfunction of Big Education,” American Conservative (October 15, 2022).
• “Just How ‘Over’ Is the Pandemic?” Spectator World (October 5, 2022).
• “The Culture War Inside the Space Program,” Spectator World (September 1).
• “Universal School Choice Would Transform Real Estate,” Spectator World (August 21, 2022).
• “The Democrats’ Weak Bench,” American Conservative (August 3, 2022).
• “The post-Covid Mental Health Crisis,” Spectator World (June 15, 2022).
• “Beyond Our Fragile Shelter: The Case for Colonizing Mars,” New Oxford Review (June 2022), pp. 20-24.
• “Biden’s Dishonest Tax Obsession,” American Conservative (June 2, 2022).
• “Why Are Government Unions Never the Bad Guy?” Spectator World (May 9, 2022).
• “How Government Overreach Bred Covid Skepticism,” Spectator World (April 28, 2022).
• “Biden’s Own Goals,” American Conservative (March 23, 2022).
• “What Should We Pray for Regarding Ukraine?” American Thinker (March 20, 2022).
• “Why a Post-Covid World Might Not Be So Bad,” Spectator World (February 22, 2022).
• “How Working from Home Threatens Authoritarian Regimes,” Spectator World (January 24, 2022). 
• “Inflation Might Spell Doom for Wokeness,” American Conservative (January 17, 2022).
• “The Rise of the Second-String Left,” Spectator World (December 9, 2021).
• “Progressivism’s Silver Linings,” American Conservative (November 5, 2021). 
• “The Benefits of Blue State Bankruptcy,” American Thinker (October 12, 2021).
• “Why Aren’t Men Going to College?” American Conservative (September 28, 2021).
• “The Wuhan Coverup Is More Typical Than You Think,” Spectator USA (September 17, 2021).
• “Progressivism as Camouflage,” American Conservative. (September 7, 2021).
• “Bidenstein,” American Thinker (August 24, 2021).
• “Red States Should Worry about Education Reform, Not Their New Neighbors from Blue States,” Real Clear Policy (July 15, 2021).
• “Three Hard Facts That Doom Woke Public Schooling,” American Thinker (July 9, 2021).
• “Toward a Critical Woke Theory,” American Conservative (June 1, 2021).
• “What Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography Can Teach Us About Humility,” The Federalist (May 13, 2021).
• “The Other Problem with Woke Schooling: It’s Psychological Child Abuse,” Real Clear Policy (April 6, 2021).
• “Mistrusted Institutions Are Pushing America Into a Debt Crisis,” American Conservative (March 12, 2021).
• “Identity Politics Is Just a Mask for the Left’s Utter Ineptitude at Solving Real Problems,” The Federalist (February 25, 2021).
• “The Public-School Monopoly Is Immoral,” American Conservative (February 4, 2021).
• “When Education Reform Is a Fiscal Windfall,” Real Clear Policy (January 6, 2021). 
• “Thanks to COVID, a Renaissance in Religious Schooling,” American Conservative (December 9, 2020). 
• “Rebirth of America’s Spiritual Psychology — Part II, New Oxford Review (December, 2020), pp. 24-28.
• “Rebirth of America’s Spiritual Psychology — Part I,” New Oxford Review (November, 2020), pp. 22-26. 
• “Slavery Reparations? We Already Tried Them And They Didn’t Work,” American Conservative (October 17, 2020).
• “Just Like Freud’s Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory Will Ultimately Collapse,” The Federalist (September 23, 2020).
• “Trading Social Science for Social Intimidation,” American Conservative (September 10, 2020). 
• “How the Replication Crisis Undermines Government by Bureaucracy,” The Federalist (August 19, 2020).
• “America’s Faithful Are Better Prepared for the Coming Anti-Government Rage,” American Thinker (June 23, 2020).
• “Our Pain in Isolation Presents a Chance for Spiritual Re-Awakening,” The Federalist (June 20, 2020).
• Living Spiritually in the Material World. New York, Fidelis Books, 2020.
• “Taking God Back to Work,” The Christian Post (June 11, 2020).
• “The Subtle Tyranny of the ‘Expert’ Class,” American Conservative (May 11, 2020).
• “The Spiritual Remedy for Self-Quarantine Cabin Fever,” The Christian Post (April 17, 2020).
• “America’s Early College Presidents and the Coronavirus,” The Christian Post (March 31, 2020).
• “How America’s Looming Debt Crisis Could Spark the Next Great Awakening,” The Federalist (January 16, 2020).
• “In the Coming Crisis, Bad Bureaucrats Will Be the First to Go,” American Conservative (January 13, 2020).
• “Elizabeth Warren Flipped, Then Flopped, on School Choice,” American Conservative (November 14, 2019).
• “Public School Cronyism Is Fueling the Pension Crisis,” American Conservative (August 13, 2019).
• “Russian Totalitarianism’s Bravest Dissidents Explain How to Defeat Socialism,” The Federalist (July 25, 2019).
• “School Choice Can Help Financially Troubled States,” Real Clear Policy (March 12, 2019).
• “How Americans’ Social Distrust Points the Way to Religious Revival,” The Federalist (January 23, 2019).
• “The Culture War Over Our Fiscal Crisis,” American Conservative (January 22, 2019).
• “Psychology Finally Finds God,” American Conservative (December 10, 2018).
• “How the Looming Public Pensions Crisis Could Be a Boon for Religious Schools,” PJ Media (November 7, 2018).
• “When the U.S. Goes Bankrupt, Here’s Who gets Out with the Least Pain,” The Federalist (October 28, 2018).
• “The Pension Crisis Is Starting to Hit Home.  School Choice Might Be the Only Answer,” National Review (January 26, 2018).
• “Will Tax Reform Spur States to Embrace School Choice?” Real Clear Policy (January 16, 2018).
• “Today’s Education Reforms Benefit Religion Too,” Religion & Liberty, volume 27, number 4 (November 20, 2017).
• “How School Choice Can Solve States’ Huge Debt and Pension Woes,” The Federalist (November 20, 2017).
• “Finding God on a Mars Colony,” Wall Street Journal (November 17, 2017).
• “The Moral Case for Letting Connecticut Go Under,” Real Clear Policy (May 26, 2017).
• “We’re Afraid of Robots Because We Don’t Believe in God,” The Federalist (May 24, 2017).
• “Why Pay Full Pensions to Unions That Bankrupted Taxpayers’ Pockets and Kids’ Minds?” The Federalist (February 11, 2017).
• “Did Connecticut’s Governor Just Admit His State Is Bankrupt?” The Daily Caller (February 8, 2017).
• “Public Pension Crisis Bodes Il for Coastal Democrats,” Real Clear Policy (February 1, 2017).
• “Good News about Public Pension Bad News,” Real Clear Policy (November 18, 2016).
• “Why Trump Survives His Exaggerations and Improprieties,” The Daily Caller (September 26, 2016).
• “Save Public Pensions with School Choice,” Real Clear Policy (September 9, 2016).
• “Nuclear Waste: Human Danger or Hidden Opportunity,” Real Clear Energy (August 23, 2016).
• “What Potential VP Pick Warren Doesn’t Want Democrats to Know,” The Daily Caller (July 7, 2016).
• “Don’t Surrender to the Robots,” American Conservative (June 13, 2016).
• “Political Correctness Is a Mask for Leftists’ Intellectual Insecurity,” The Federalist (February 12, 2016).
• “Climate Change Solution from the Moon,” Real Clear Policy (December 1, 2015).
• “How Moon Gas Could Solve Climate Change,” The Federalist (November 11, 2015).
• “Getting Kids Out of Dangerous Schools,” Real Clear Policy (November 9, 2015).
• “Why Low Interest Rates Mean Big Bills,” The Federalist (October 19, 2015).
• “Democrats’ Income Inequality Theme Betrays a Fatal Party Weakness,” The Daily Caller (October 12, 2015).
• “School Choice Can Help Quell Urban Violence,” The Daily Caller (September 28, 2015).
• “Robots Don’t Mean the End of Human Labor,” Wall Street Journal. (August 24, 2015), p. A13.
• “Why Connecticut Is Self-Destructing,” Real Clear Policy (June 9, 2015).
• “Obamacare’s Most Hated (and Best) Part,” Real Clear Policy (February 12, 2015).
• “Elizabeth Warren’s Achilles Heel: Her Support for School Choice,” The Federalist (January 15, 2015).
• “Free Community College Is Already Here,” Real Clear Policy (January 13, 2015).
• “The Other Sixties Revolution Has Unexpectedly Returned,” The Federalist (January 6, 2015).
• “An Ideological Victory Over the Castro Brothers Is Not Enough,” The American Spectator (December 23, 2014).
• “Make Offers to Public Employees They Can’t Refuse,” The American Spectator (October 31, 2014).
• “Why the Nationwide Pension Crisis Is an Opportunity to Reinvigorate Society,” The Federalist (September 26, 2014).
• “In Praise of Limousine Liberals,” The American Spectator (August 22, 2014).
• “Public Pensions: Making Good on Bad Promises,” Real Clear Policy (August 18, 2014).
• “Fiscal Crisis and the Fate of Liberalism,” AmericanThinker.com (June 28, 2014).
• “Big Spending on School Infrastructure Is Bad Policy,” AmericanThinker.com (April 12, 2014).
• “The Real Social Darwinists,” AmericanThinker.com (August 20, 2013).
• “Fiscal Reformer as Spiritual Healer,” AmericanThinker.com (July 14, 2013).
• Beyond Depression.  Minneapolis, Think Piece Publishing, 2013.
• “Character Formation and the Origins of A.A.,” The New Atlantis. (Winter-Spring, 2013), pp. 100-111.
• “How Local Politics Has Been Undermined,” Real Clear Policy (January 2, 2013).
• “The Hidden Revolution in Online Learning,” Wall Street Journal. (December 27, 2012), p. A13.
• “Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Reform Immigration,” The Freeman. (November, 2012), pp. 6-8.
• “How to Cut Spending at the Grass Roots,” Wall Street Journal. (October 27, 2012), p. A13.
• “The High Cost of Government Waste,” The American. (January 12, 2012).
• “Meet the Suburban Parents: the Other Obstacle to School Reform,” The American Spectator. (June, 2011), pp. 24-27.
• “Religious Alternatives to the Public Sector,” The American. (May 24, 2011).
• “Liberal Self-dealing and Financial Crises,” Investor’s Business Daily. (January 5, 2011), p. A11.
• “A Presidential Tax Cut for Liberal Elites,” Investor’s Business Daily. (September 20, 2010), p. A19.
• “Europe’s Phony War on Tax Evasion,” Human Events.com  (February 13, 2010).
• “The Unseen Culprits in America’s Financial Crisis,” Human Events.com  (January 21, 2009).
• How to Reduce Property Taxes with a Citizens Audit Committee (collaboration), Yankee Institute (June, 2009).
• “Connecticut Faces a School Tax Revolt,” Wall Street Journal.  (August 23-34, 2008), p. A9.
• The Coming Showdown with Public Labor, Yankee Institute (June, 2008).
• “The Coming Showdown with Public Labor,” Human Events.com  (March 12, 2008).
• “Yankee Ingenuity” (with Daniel Gressel), Wall Street Journal.  (July 1, 2007), p. A6.
• Free College for High School Students, Yankee Institute (January, 2007).
• “The Coming Crisis in Suburban Schooling,” The American Enterprise.  (July / August, 2006), pp. 26-28.  Research funded in part by the State Think Tank Fund.
• “The Special Education Scare,” in D. Salisbury & J. Tooley, eds., What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries.  Washington, DC; Cato Institute; 2005.
• “School Choice and the Mainline Protestant Future,” Faith & Freedom. (Summer, 2005), pp. 18-20.
• “Separate the Professions from the State,” The Freeman. (December, 2004), pp. 16-20.  Research funded in part by a grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
• The Early Graduation Reward Plan: Helping High School Students Mature While Municipalities Reduce Spending, Yankee Institute (October, 2004).  Research funded in part by a grant from the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation.
• “What Would Be Left of Social Democracy without the Right,” Investor’s Business Daily. (August 3, 2004), p. A14.  Research funded by the Yankee Charitable Trust.
• “Benefits of Choice Go Beyond Schools and Into Economy,” Investor’s Business Daily. (June 7, 2004), p. A18. Research funded in part by a grant from the Roe Foundation.
• “Magic Bullet,” The American Enterprise. (October-November, 2003), pp. 42-43.  Research funded in part by a grant from the Jaquelin Hume Foundation.
• “More Choices for Disabled Kids: Lessons from Abroad,” Policy Review. (April-May, 2002), pp. 41-52.  Research funded by a grant from the Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation.
• “Christianity and the Space Program,” New Oxford Review.  (January, 2002), pp. 14-24.
• “Private Ratings,” The National Review. (September 25, 1995), pp. 81-83.
• “Religion’s Challenge to Psychology,” Public Interest. (Summer, 1995), pp. 79+. Reprinted in Current.
• “These Think Tanks Think Small,” Christian Science Monitor. (June 27, 1995), opinion/essay page.
• Spirituality and Competition.  Center City (MN), Hazelden, 1994.
• Growing Wiser.  Center City (MN), Hazelden, 1994.
• “From Churches: a New Kind of Healing,” Wall Street Journal. (July 5, 1994), op ed page (p. A-12).
• “Will Organized Religion Take Over Addiction Treatment?” Professional Counselor. (June, 1994), pp. 26-33.
• “Ethical Therapy,” New Realities. (January-February, 1989), pp. 33-39.
• To Thine Own Self Be True: the Relationship between Spiritual Values & Emotional Health.  New York, Doubleday, 1987 (revised ’89).
• Psychology, What’s in It for Us?: an Introductory Text (senior author).  New York, Random House, 1976.
• Gomorrah (novel; 2nd author).  New York, Doubleday Science Fiction, 1974.
• Biofeedback (2nd author).  Philadelphia, Lippincott (now Harper-Collins), 1973.
• “Communes and the Work Crisis,” Nation. (November 9, 1970), pp. 460-463.
• Requiem for Democracy?: Inquiry into the Limits of Behavior Control (1st author).  NY, Holt-Rinehart,1970.