Don Watkins

 

Specialties: Capitalism, Free Market, Free Speech, Individual Rights

Don WatkinsDon Watkins is an analyst focusing on free speech issues at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. His Op-Eds have appeared in such venues as Investor's Business Daily, The Christian Science Monitor, and CNBC.com, and he has given numerous radio interviews on programs such as The G. Gordon Liddy Show. Mr. Watkins is also a contributing writer for The Objective Standard, a quarterly journal of culture and politics, and an editor for Impact, the Ayn Rand Institute's donor newsletter. He has a BA in Business Administration from Strayer University.

Essays

Op-Eds

Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?

Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech

The High Cost of Washington's Price Manipulation Policy

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters

Doing Violence to Free Speech

Be Healthy or Else!

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty

Press Releases

Supreme Court Abets the FCC's War on Free Speech

The FCC's Plan to Censor the Internet

The Left and the Right vs. Free Speech

End the FCC's War on Free Speech

The Ayn Rand Center Responds to the Financial Crisis

Religious Discrimination Laws vs. Free Speech

End the Fast Food Ban

End Censorship on the Airwaves

Property Rights Go Up in Smoke in San Francisco

Letters to the Editor

Supporters of Smoking Bans Are Ignoring a Crucial Danger

Don't Violate Verizon's Right to Free Speech

Don't Forbid Fast Food

Democracy Is Opposed to Freedom

Socialized Medicine Kills

An Illegitimate Standard of "Legitimacy"

Airport Security Won't Give Us National Security

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