Opinion Archive: Jacob Sullum
- Is That a Spy in Your Pocket? — Wednesday, May 23, 2012
- Romney's Gay Marriage Challenge — Wednesday, May 16, 2012
- The Marriage Whose Name He Dare Not Speak — Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- Twenty Years for Standing Her Ground — Wednesday, May 2, 2012
- Self-Defense Under Attack — Wednesday, April 25, 2012
- From Hackers to Slackers — Wednesday, April 18, 2012
- 'Radical' Republicans: Unfortunately, No Basis for Obama's Claims About the GOP's Extremism — Wednesday, April 11, 2012
- Shooting in the Dark — Wednesday, April 4, 2012
- The ObamaCare Penalty That Isn't — Wednesday, March 28, 2012
- A Hateless Hate Crime — Wednesday, March 21, 2012
- If I Had a Rich Man: Wealthy Super PAC Donors Make Politics More Competitive — Wednesday, March 14, 2012
- Sandra Fluke's Protection Racket — Wednesday, March 7, 2012
- The Spy Who Hated Me — Wednesday, February 29, 2012
- Contraceptive Failure — Wednesday, February 22, 2012
- Obama's Fiscal Fakery: How Can You Pay Down the National Debt by Building It Up? — Wednesday, February 15, 2012
- Bogus Busts: New York City Continues Its Illegal Crackdown on Pot Smokers — Wednesday, February 8, 2012
- Complexity Compounded — Wednesday, February 1, 2012
- GPS Tracking and Other New Surveillance Technologies Threaten Privacy — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- Misguided Efforts Gave Us the Pretense of 'Independent' Campaign Spending — Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- The Freakin' FCC: The Increasingly Incomprehensible Ban on Broadcast Indecency — Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- The Loneliness of the Non-mainstream Swimmer — Wednesday, January 4, 2012
About Jacob Sullum
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason, a monthly magazine that covers politics and culture from a libertarian perspective. During two decades in journalism he has relentlessly skewered authoritarians of the left and the right, making the case for shrinking the realm of politics and expanding the realm of individual choice.
In addition to Reason, Sullum's work has appeared in National Review, Cigar Aficionado, Seed, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on TV and radio programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, Paula Zahn Now, The Charlie Rose Show and NPR.
Sullum is the author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin) and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (Free Press).
Saying Yes has been praised in both National Review, which called it "a highly effective debunking," and Mother Jones, which described it as "a healthy dose of sober talk in a debate dominated by yelping dopes." For Your Own Good, Amazon's No. 1 public policy best seller in 1998, also was widely praised by reviewers, who called it "compelling" (The Wall Street Journal), "meticulously logical" (The New York Times), and a "cogent and thorough ... must-read" (The Washington Post).
Sullum, a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, has received the Keystone Press Award for investigative reporting and First Prize in the Felix Morley Memorial Journalism Competition. In 1998, his article on pain treatment for Reason was a National Magazine Award finalist in the Public Interest category. In 2004, he received the Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties, and in 2005, he received the Drug Policy Alliance's Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Journalism.
Sullum first joined Reason in 1989, as an assistant editor, later serving as associate editor and managing editor. He also has worked as the articles editor of National Review and as a reporter for the News and Courier/Evening Post in Charleston, South Carolina, and The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Sullum is a graduate of Cornell University, where he was an editor and columnist at The Cornell Daily Sun and majored in economics and psychology. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he currently lives in Texas with his wife, two daughters, three cats, and one dog.
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