The Freeman, February 1986.
Essays
Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail
The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Are the Poor ‘Losing Ground’?
Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1985.
Helping the Poor: A Few Modest Proposals
Commentary, May 1985.
The Great Society: An Exchange
The New Republic, April 8, 1985.
The New Racism
The New Republic, December 31, 1984.
Saving the Poor from Welfare
Reason, December 1984.
The Domino that Didn’t Fall
Atlantic Monthly, November 1984.
The War on Poverty 1965–1980
Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1984.
The Fairness Delusion
American Spectator, October 1984.