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Michael C. Moynihan

Senior Editor, Reason Magazine
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Michael Moynihan is a senior editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Before joining Reason, Moynihan was a resident fellow at the Swedish policy institute Timbro and edited the English-language Stockholm Spectator. He is currently a visiting fellow at Timbro.
Moynihan is a frequent commenter in the Swedish media and has written for Expressen, Aftonbladet, and Göteborgs-Tidningen. He serves on the editorial board of the Swedish magazine Neo, where he is also a regular columnist. In 2006, Moynihan produced a documentary for Stockholm's TV8 on New York radio legend Barry Farber.
Moynihan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received a B.A. in history. He lives in Washington, DC.
AllOp-Eds
- Ending the Birther Debate
Why Obama should have ignored the conspiracy theorists
Michael C. Moynihan
April 29, 2011 - A Whole Foods Fight in Boston
Grad students and hipsters protest the organic market, but many Latino residents are happy about the new shopping option and the jobs.
Michael C. Moynihan
April 19, 2011 - Free Speech for Terry Jones!
The idiotic reaction to a lunatic cult leader
Michael C. Moynihan
April 7, 2011 - The War in Libya and the "Arab Spring"
A Reason roundtable
Shaazka Beyerle, Michael Totten, Christopher Preble, Jesse Walker, Hussein Ibish, Michael C. Moynihan, Michael Young and Brendan O'Neill
April 7, 2011 - Lost in Libya
Obama's quiet war against Qaddafi
Michael C. Moynihan
March 25, 2011 - The End of a Libyan Crime Family
They might hold out temporarily, but it’s over for the Qaddafi clan.
Michael C. Moynihan
February 22, 2011 - The Sorry State of Our Union
Forget the "Sputnik moment," let's have a "Carter moment"
Michael C. Moynihan
January 26, 2011 - Defending the Right to Offend
The never-ending assault on free expression
Michael C. Moynihan
January 6, 2011 - Assange's Extremist Employees
Why is WikiLeaks employing a well-known Holocaust denier and his disgraced son?
Michael C. Moynihan
December 14, 2010 - Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier
When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.
Michael C. Moynihan
December 7, 2010 - The Great Rejection
The election means exactly what you think it means.
Michael C. Moynihan
November 3, 2010 - The Power Politics of the Prize
The Nobel has long been about both politics and literature.
Michael C. Moynihan
October 8, 2010 - From the Killing Fields to the Tea Party
A Cambodian refugee and self-described Reagan Republican runs for Congress in the Bay State.
Michael C. Moynihan
September 3, 2010 - Julian Assange, WikiJournalist
Is the Wikileaks "editor-in-chief" a journalist or an activist? Or both?
Michael C. Moynihan
August 6, 2010 - Hollywood Babylon—For Ugly People
A week of navel-gazing coverage of Andrew Breitbart, the Journolist, and race
Michael C. Moynihan
July 23, 2010 - The Defector
Christopher Hitchens’ memoir details a lifetime in combat journalism
Michael C. Moynihan
July 9, 2010 - Beck U
The excitable Fox News host goes to college
Michael C. Moynihan
July 7, 2010 - Is Obama an Anglophobe?
The British press certainly thinks so
Michael C. Moynihan
June 23, 2010 - Georgia's Russian Problem
The awesomely awful Stalin Museum and other Georgian delights.
Michael C. Moynihan
June 4, 2010 - Notes from the Oslo Freedom Forum
With Bukovsky, Medvedev, and the exile Chechens
Michael C. Moynihan
May 7, 2010 - The Americanization of British Politics
A defense of television debates and celebrity endorsements
Michael C. Moynihan
April 16, 2010 - Red America, White Power
Is the Tea Party movement motivated by race hatred?
Michael C. Moynihan
April 1, 2010 - Mass. Hysteria
Scenes from the revolutionary takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
Michael C. Moynihan
March 12, 2010 - A Libyan Charm Offensive
To the shores of Tripoli with the son of Qaddafi
Michael C. Moynihan
February 22, 2010 - A Conspiracy So Immense
What a new history of conspiracy theories tells us about Birthers and Truthers
Michael C. Moynihan
February 19, 2010 - Nazis, Commies, and Death Panels
It's the year in hyperbole!
Michael C. Moynihan
December 23, 2009 - The Teutonic Turn
In the midst of an economic downturn, German voters go libertarian
Michael C. Moynihan
October 2, 2009 - The Failure of African Aid
Michael C. Moynihan
August 3, 2009 - Massive, Expensive Expansion of the Pell Grant Program
President Obama wants to make college grants into an entitlement. Bad idea.
Michael C. Moynihan
June 10, 2009 - All the President's Newsmen
The stupidity of getting government involved in the journalism business
Michael C. Moynihan
March 23, 2009 - Economics Actually
Michael C. Moynihan
January 1, 2009 - The Rise of Disaster Socialism
I've seen the past...and it works
Michael C. Moynihan
October 20, 2008
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