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Sheldon Richman is serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFF's award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and FFF's newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State.

Calling for the abolition, not the reform, of public schooling. Separating School & State has become a landmark book in both libertarian and educational circles. In his column in the Financial Times, Michael Prowse wrote: "I recommend a subversive tract, Separating School & State by Sheldon Richman of the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank... . I also think that Mr. Richman is right to fear that state education undermines personal responsibility..."

Mr. Richman's articles on population, federal disaster assistance, international trade, education, the environment, American history, foreign policy, privacy, computers, and the Middle East have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Scholar, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Washington Times, Insight, Cato Policy Report, Journal of Economic Development, The Freeman, The World & I, Reason, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Policy, Liberty magazine, and other publications. He is a contributor to the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.

A former newspaper reporter and former senior editor at the Cato Institute, Mr. Richman is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.

He keeps the blog "Free Association."

Editorial

Date	Title
06/07/2012 10:01:49	Obama Codifies the Power of Indefinite Detention
01/07/2011 10:15:53	Afghanistan: War of Choice Not Necessity
05/04/2010 09:16:24	Immigration, Civil Liberties, and the Drug War

Analysis

Date	Title
06/27/2014 13:32:35	Smedley Butler and the Racket that Is War
06/25/2014 12:50:44	US-Egyptian 'Historic Partnership' Reeks with Hypocrisy
06/04/2014 13:20:02	Sgt. Bergdahl and the Fog of War
05/22/2014 11:39:35	More U.S. Intervention in Libya?
05/14/2014 12:20:03	The Neoconservative Obsession with Iran
03/26/2014 11:31:18	The Iranian Threat That Never Was
03/20/2014 12:29:09	Did Team Obama Blunder or Conspire in Ukraine?
03/05/2014 14:49:07	American Hawks Risk Escalating the Ukrainian Crisis
02/12/2014 13:08:57	The Lethal Legacy of U.S. Foreign Intervention
01/15/2014 13:06:14	They Don't Mean Well
01/01/2014 13:35:03	It’s Not Edward Snowden Who Betrayed Us
12/26/2013 14:01:46	Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel
12/18/2013 13:36:06	Does Obama Want an Agreement with Iran or Not?
12/11/2013 14:10:41	Mandela Wasn’t Radical Enough
11/26/2013 12:34:30	Iran: It's Not about Nuclear Weapons
11/20/2013 11:48:17	The US isn’t Leaving Afghanistan
11/13/2013 12:19:08	Preventing War with Iran is Top Priority
10/02/2013 09:48:35	Can Iran Trust the United States?
09/24/2013 08:39:37	The Kenyan Massacre's Roots in America's Somalia Policy
09/04/2013 09:05:26	We Must Not Be the World's Policeman
08/28/2013 10:06:05	US Has No Moral Standing to Condemn Assad
08/07/2013 11:11:34	The U.S. Empire Provokes Terrorism
07/25/2013 08:24:38	The Economics Lesson Obama Needs to Learn
07/09/2013 09:24:32	What the Immigration Bill Overlooks
06/27/2013 10:36:50	Big Brother, Not Snowden and Greenwald, Is the Story
06/14/2013 08:51:24	It’s Not Edward Snowden Who Betrayed Us
06/11/2013 07:45:27	Obama Speaks with Forked Tongue on Surveillance
06/04/2013 08:28:34	The U.S. Base on Diego Garcia: An Overlooked Atrocity
05/27/2013 09:14:55	Revisionist History Day
05/09/2013 09:25:23	A Modest Gun-Safety Proposal
04/30/2013 09:14:14	Did President Obama 'Radicalize' the Tsarnaevs?
04/23/2013 09:12:25	What If the Tsarnaev's Motive Was Revenge for U.S. Foreign Policy?
04/17/2013 11:20:54	Gun-Control Demagogy
04/02/2013 10:00:03	Progressives Believe in Money Magic
03/21/2013 07:28:19	The Disasters that U.S. Intervention Created
03/13/2013 11:45:24	The Dow Jones Is Lying
03/07/2013 12:57:48	Cutting Government Would Boost Economy
01/31/2013 08:34:58	The Ominous U.S. Presence in Northwest Africa
01/25/2013 10:51:42	Mali: Here We Go Again
01/18/2013 09:00:32	Did the Government Drive Aaron Swartz to Suicide?
12/20/2012 10:49:55	The Fight over Right-to-Work
11/15/2012 09:17:51	Republican Reconsideration of Immigration
10/19/2012 08:08:42	America’s Drone Terrorism
10/10/2012 22:18:45	The Glaring Contradiction in Anti-Iran Policy
09/20/2012 08:30:27	Romney, Taxes, and Dependence on Government
08/31/2012 12:14:44	Obama’s Logic of War
08/10/2012 11:01:55	Labor Outsourcing Is Not the Problem
07/11/2012 09:15:10	Government Shows Itself Impotent on Economy
06/26/2012 10:54:36	Are Americans Not Submissive Enough?
06/01/2012 09:14:00	U.S. Should Steer Clear of Syria
05/25/2012 08:53:52	Romney and Bain Capital
05/16/2012 10:10:55	When Will Obama Evolve on the Drug War?
05/07/2012 10:32:57	Obama, bin Laden, and Mitt
04/26/2012 11:18:13	An Echo, Not a Choice
04/17/2012 08:40:38	Barack Obama: Corporatist
03/23/2012 08:42:49	Defusing the Middle East Would Lower Gas Prices
03/16/2012 09:19:07	Obama’s Iran Policy Commits Him to War
03/05/2012 11:33:20	No to AIPAC, No to Israel, and No to War
02/21/2012 10:46:16	Obama Administration 'Brainwashes' Public on Afghanistan
02/06/2012 12:16:55	Obama Can Stop Israel from Attacking Iran
02/03/2012 10:43:14	Are Obama and Netanyahu Trying to Push Iran toward a Nuke?
02/01/2012 11:23:36	Central Planning at the Federal Reserve
01/23/2012 13:03:05	Stopping the Rush to War against Iran
01/20/2012 10:44:49	A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire
01/12/2012 12:58:16	Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism
01/04/2012 10:10:49	Exiting Iraq
12/27/2011 13:55:58	Congress, Obama Codify Indefinite Detention
12/16/2011 10:32:35	Has War against Iran Already Begun?
12/14/2011 10:30:07	The Myth of Withdrawal from Afghanistan
12/07/2011 10:58:17	Neocons Don’t Believe Their Own Anti-Iran Propaganda
11/23/2011 09:07:27	War with Iran Would Be Madness
10/10/2011 14:48:06	Wall Street Couldn't Have Done It Alone
10/06/2011 18:04:35	Is This Any Way to Run a Republic?
10/03/2011 10:23:45	Obama Backs Occupation of Palestine
09/20/2011 11:02:25	Peace Prize-Winner Obama Savages Somalia
09/16/2011 08:27:41	Stimulus II Won’t Work, Either
09/09/2011 10:39:28	9/11 and the National Security Scam
09/02/2011 10:26:20	Libya Is Nothing for Obama to Be Proud Of
08/17/2011 12:21:49	Autocracy on the Run in the Middle East
08/12/2011 09:33:22	Politicians in a Panic
07/12/2011 09:28:20	Afghanistan: A War of Choice, Not Necessity
07/01/2011 09:20:24	The Isolationist Red Herring
06/24/2011 09:26:23	The Unchanging Imperial Paradigm
06/17/2011 09:04:24	Obama’s War Is Peace
06/10/2011 09:57:04	The Media Distract the Public from War
06/06/2011 11:06:25	Afghanistan: Digging In
06/03/2011 08:55:36	Obama Flouts the War Powers Resolution
05/17/2011 09:20:21	After bin Laden?
05/02/2011 09:43:58	Obama’s Broken Guantánamo Promise
04/26/2011 09:03:12	The Budget Mess: A Crisis in Legitimacy
04/07/2011 09:31:10	Emperor Obama
03/25/2011 11:13:00	Obama’s Imperial Adventure
03/22/2011 10:24:10	The Neoconservative Obama Administration
03/11/2011 09:54:48	Obama’s Disgrace
03/04/2011 14:23:04	Stay out of Libya
02/21/2011 10:56:28	When Will George W. Bush Be Tried for His War Crimes?
02/14/2011 12:24:30	U.S. Versus the Egyptian People
02/03/2011 10:29:20	The Unraveling of US Mideast Policy
01/28/2011 12:19:50	Ron Paul and Ralph Nader on Corporatism and War
01/03/2011 10:39:33	Why WikiLeaks Leaks Matter
12/17/2010 12:48:24	Beware the Campaign for War against Iran
12/08/2010 10:52:40	Is a Peace Movement Finally Awakening?
12/01/2010 10:25:02	TSA Intrusion Is One Price of Empire
11/26/2010 10:14:52	Afghanistan: Digging in
11/02/2010 07:41:00	US Covert War Provokes Terrorism in Yemen
10/27/2010 11:24:07	Thank Goodness for WikiLeaks
10/22/2010 10:34:49	Hypocrisy’s Coming Election-Day Triumph
10/08/2010 11:42:13	War Does Not Produce Prosperity
09/01/2010 08:28:36	The Dishonor of Militarism
08/10/2010 09:04:24	What They Do in Our Name
07/31/2010 08:55:57	National Insecurity
07/12/2010 10:26:00	Haiti Needs Freedom
05/24/2010 10:54:11	Is the Peace Movement Finally Awakening?

Politics

Date	Title
07/24/2014 12:46:55	In Foreign Affairs, Not Doing Anything Is the Thing to Do
07/17/2014 13:44:51	Again, the Isolationist Smear
07/09/2014 14:58:14	Let the Immigrants Stay
06/18/2014 11:41:05	The Noninterventionists Told You So
06/10/2014 13:30:42	News Coverage Misinforms Americans on the Bergdahl Swap
05/29/2014 12:20:20	The Danger Is Intervention, Not 'Isolation'
05/08/2014 13:40:26	Bill Clinton and the Bogus Iranian Threat
05/01/2014 10:51:01	Why the U.S. Blew a Chance to Reconcile with Iran
04/23/2014 11:21:54	Obama Plays with Fire in Ukraine
04/16/2014 10:18:23	The Ayatollahs' Overlooked Anti-WMD Fatwas
04/03/2014 10:30:48	The Roots of Iran’s Nuclear Secrecy
03/23/2014 11:41:34	The American Disease
03/13/2014 12:15:33	How Americans Can Help Ukrainians
02/26/2014 13:02:36	Obama Should Steer Clear of Ukraine
01/30/2014 12:09:01	Obama and Kerry Jeopardize Peace with Iran
01/21/2014 12:37:13	The Surveillance State Lives
01/07/2014 13:15:31	US Foreign Policy is a Shambles
12/05/2013 12:23:23	In Afghanistan, They Died for No Good Cause
10/31/2013 10:19:58	Inflation Is the Last Thing We Need
10/23/2013 11:15:32	Does Obama Have the Courage to Pursue Peace with Iran?
10/16/2013 10:14:38	Don’t Look for Grown-Ups in Government
10/09/2013 10:57:30	Stop Demonizing Iran
09/11/2013 12:22:56	How the U.S. Can Help Rid the World of Chemical Weapons
09/06/2013 09:05:53	The Cynical US Policy on Chemical Weapons
08/20/2013 10:47:25	Delete the Fed
08/14/2013 08:32:39	Stop-and-Frisk
08/01/2013 07:22:31	How to Help Fast-Food Workers
07/16/2013 08:33:05	Zimmerman Case Is No Grounds for Gun Control
06/18/2013 09:03:17	Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us
05/30/2013 09:23:41	Obama's Willful Foreign-Policy Blindness
05/16/2013 09:29:32	Abolish the IRS -- And the Income Tax with It
04/10/2013 08:42:32	The Absurdity of 'Universal' Background Checks
03/25/2013 11:17:02	How the News Media Betrayed Us on Iraq
02/20/2013 10:10:10	The American People Need Real Spending Cuts
02/12/2013 08:23:36	Drone Trust the Government
02/06/2013 10:26:01	Hagel's Retreat
01/11/2013 15:51:54	The Hagel Brouhaha
01/04/2013 10:17:41	The Washington Con Game Goes On
12/28/2012 08:45:03	Gun-Control, Mental-Health Laws Won’t Make Us Safer
12/22/2012 10:47:08	Right-to-Work Legislation is Not the 'Good'
12/11/2012 09:41:49	Washington's Budget Con Game
11/27/2012 10:47:01	Nullify the Drug War!
11/20/2012 10:02:57	Petraeus Fell for the Wrong Reason
11/08/2012 10:22:04	The Election’s Unanswered Question
11/02/2012 08:26:17	Life without FEMA?
10/26/2012 08:33:22	Americans Should Reject Obama-Romney Foreign Policy
10/12/2012 08:21:41	Clinton’s Legacy: The Financial and Housing Meltdown
09/27/2012 07:52:14	The Hubris of Romney and Obama
09/14/2012 08:45:50	Deeper in the Afghan Quagmire
08/15/2012 12:03:53	Paul Ryan: Would-Be Savior of the Welfare-Warfare State
08/06/2012 11:55:48	Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran
07/23/2012 10:28:14	Don’t Let Aurora Shooting Curtail Right of Self-Defense
07/20/2012 10:45:25	Obama, Romney Rhetoric Risks Trade War
07/16/2012 12:14:24	Opposing Imperialism Isn’t Isolationism
07/02/2012 09:32:40	Supreme Court’s Word Game Saves Obamacare
06/22/2012 11:06:24	How to Get Money out of Politics
06/13/2012 10:09:01	Bloomberg’s Soda Policy
05/17/2012 09:17:31	JPMorgan Lesson: End Government Bank Guarantees
04/04/2012 09:04:12	Clinton's Loose War Talk
03/02/2012 09:36:40	Out of Afghanistan Now!
12/01/2011 09:50:09	Obama’s War Record Should Appall Progressives
11/11/2011 09:26:56	What Immigration Problem?
10/24/2011 10:02:17	Drone Warfare Is Fraught with Danger
08/19/2011 10:07:20	Conservatives Don’t Hate Government
07/29/2011 09:25:03	'Shared Sacrifice': Obama's Demagoguery
07/25/2011 11:06:25	The Government Is Watching You
07/23/2011 09:12:51	The Debt-Limit Mess
07/08/2011 11:38:16	Don’t Support the Troops — Bring Them Home
05/27/2011 09:40:29	Close Down the IMF
05/06/2011 09:42:37	Thank Goodness for WikiLeaks
03/21/2011 11:29:39	Muslim Radicals Strike at US Foreign Policy
01/24/2011 12:11:57	Obama Has Nothing to Teach China’s Hu
01/13/2011 10:42:09	Government Spies on Americans
11/15/2010 12:45:54	Blood on His Hands
11/12/2010 10:11:58	Republican Phonies
09/28/2010 09:03:56	Terrorist Threat Has Roots in US Policy
09/16/2010 09:14:27	They Died for Iran
09/13/2010 10:43:53	Obama: Neoconservative
08/25/2010 09:23:29	Persecuting a Conciliator
08/16/2010 09:33:59	None Dare Call It Tyranny
07/27/2010 08:00:33	US Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11
07/18/2010 08:19:28	The Bibi & Obama Show
07/16/2010 12:11:44	The GOP Chairman Was Right about Afghanistan
06/28/2010 13:35:10	Endless Occupation?
06/21/2010 09:45:47	Did Bush & Co. Do Medical Research on Detainees?
06/15/2010 11:20:31	Barack Obama: No Radicalism to Be Found
06/11/2010 08:53:09	Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.
06/03/2010 08:05:52	Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies
04/24/2010 12:58:48	Is a Real Anti-Government Movement Forming?
03/10/2010 10:47:14	Is Greece the Future of America?
03/08/2010 14:49:28	Obama’s Message to Schoolchildren
02/23/2010 11:37:11	Obama’s Phony Populism
02/15/2010 16:13:33	Bernanke Has the Whole World in His Hands
02/06/2010 07:39:19	Obama and the Public
02/04/2010 04:00:00	The Road to Health-Care Serfdom
01/28/2010 10:42:52	The Only Way to Get Money out of Politics
01/23/2010 08:07:48	Haiti Needs Freedom