Reason on Facebook
Reason on Twitter
Reason on YouTube
Reason RSS
Staff > Brian Doherty
Brian Doherty 
Senior Editor
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006) and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007).
From 1994 to 2003, Doherty worked as associate editor and reporter for Reason, writing a variety of stories on topics ranging from the Americans with Disabilities Act to pollution-credit trading to the independent rock scene.
Doherty's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications.
He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck Show. Doherty was the Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 1999 and served as managing editor at Regulation magazine from 1993–94.
Doherty received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida. He lives in Los Angeles.
RSS Feed for Brian Doherty
Hit & Run Posts Only
Articles Only
Contributions | Hit & Run Posts
- Heller Ain't No Bad Place to Be, Brian Doherty, July 2, 2009
- The Eternal Recurrence of Financial Corruption, Brian Doherty, June 19, 2009
- California: Harbinger of Fiscal Doom, Brian Doherty, June 3, 2009
- Frisco Freak-Out, Brian Doherty, July 2009 Print Edition
- 20,000 Nations Above the Sea, Brian Doherty, July 2009 Print Edition
- The Housing Boom and Bust, Brian Doherty, May 20, 2009
- Life After Heller, Brian Doherty, May 5, 2009
- The Freaky Father of Fitness, Brian Doherty, June 2009 Print Edition
- I.T. Go Home, Brian Doherty, June 2009 Print Edition
- President of Everything, Brian Doherty, April 27, 2009
- The Clandestine War Over the Food Safety Modernization Act, Brian Doherty, April 20, 2009
- How America Was Sold on World War, Brian Doherty, April 3, 2009
- Storm Ahead, Brian Doherty, May 2009 Print Edition
- Yesterday Is Tomorrow, Brian Doherty, May 2009 Print Edition
- You Will Be Stimulated!, Brian Doherty, March 20, 2009
- Rorschach Doesn't Shrug, Brian Doherty, March 6, 2009
- The International War on Drugs Hits Close to Home, Brian Doherty, March 4, 2009
- Guns in Parks?, Brian Doherty, April 2009 Print Edition
- Rating the Internet, Brian Doherty, April 2009 Print Edition
- Libertarianism in an Age of Economic Crisis, Brian Doherty, February 16, 2009
- Soothsayer Speech, Brian Doherty, March 2009 Print Edition
- Follow Up: ID and Surveillance, Brian Doherty, March 2009 Print Edition
- Conservatism's Hollow Defeat, Brian Doherty, March 2009 Print Edition
- Briefly Noted: Cracking the Conspiracy, Brian Doherty, March 2009 Print Edition
- The President Is Not a Gun Slinger, Brian Doherty, January 30, 2009
- Product Displacement, Brian Doherty, February 2009 Print Edition
- Briefly Noted: The Amazing Ditko, Brian Doherty, February 2009 Print Edition
- A New Republican Revolution, Brian Doherty, January 12, 2009
- Baloney Ballistics, Brian Doherty, January 2009 Print Edition
- Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited, Brian Doherty, January 2009 Print Edition
- Pixar's Stories, Brian Doherty, January 2009 Print Edition
- The Grimness of Inflation, Brian Doherty, December 18, 2008
- The Old New Right, Brian Doherty, December 15, 2008
- Where Did the Libertarian Party Go Wrong?, Brian Doherty, November 17, 2008
- How the Second Amendment Was Restored, Brian Doherty, December 2008 Print Edition
- 40 Years of Free Minds and Free Markets, Brian Doherty, December 2008 Print Edition
- Racing to a Non-Petroleum Future, Brian Doherty, October 24, 2008
- Five Questions About the Short-Selling Ban, Brian Doherty, September 26, 2008
- "Who Can Save Us Now?", Brian Doherty, July 28, 2008
- The Gun Rights Fight Isn't Over, Brian Doherty, June 27, 2008
- The Second Amendment Goes to Court, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Randy Barnett, Alan Gura, Brian Doherty, David B. Kopel, Glenn Reynolds, Sanford Levinson and Jacob Sullum, June 27, 2008
- Power From the People, Brian Doherty, May 2008 Print Edition
- Need to Know, Brian Doherty, May 2008 Print Edition
- Artifact: Castro Shrugged, Brian Doherty, May 2008 Print Edition
- Mint Condition, Brian Doherty, April 2008 Print Edition
- The Cost of a Free Lunch, Brian Doherty, March 2008 Print Edition
- Guns for D.C.?, Brian Doherty, March 2008 Print Edition
- The Impossible Dream of Energy Independence, Brian Doherty, February 20, 2008
- Lost in Political Philosophy, Brian Doherty, February 5, 2008
- Losing Our Initiative, Brian Doherty, February 2008 Print Edition