David Harsanyi is an award-winning columnist at The Denver Post and
author of Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders,
Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning
America into a Nation of Children
(Doubleday/Broadway, Sept. 2007)

In addition to a thrice-weekly column, David's writings on politics
and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review,
New York Press, Christian Science Monitor, Jerusalem Post, Toronto
Globe & Mail, The Hill, Sports Illustrated Online
, and numerous other
publications. He's also a regular guest on radio and television shows
across the country, including PBS, NPR and Fox News.

His website is DavidHarsanyi.com

Blog Entries by David Harsanyi

Judas Giuliani or the Yankee Flipper*

Posted October 24, 2007 | 12:13 PM (EST)


Well, now I have serious doubts about Rudy Giuliani. How anyone can trust him with grand issues of our time when he can't even get simple baseball fan guidelines right? We've all heard about Hillary's "I've always been a Yankee fan" nonsense. It's frequently repeated because it tells...
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Censoring the Greatest Generation

Posted September 23, 2007 | 01:02 PM (EST)


I'm a big fan of Ken Burns' chronicles of American history. So naturally I look forward to watching his new ambitious documentary about World War II, which debuts on PBS tonight across the country. When I read about the sanitizing of this historical document, I was taken back a bit.

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The Evil of Dora

Posted September 16, 2007 | 04:09 PM (EST)


In the New York Times this Sunday, Gary Cross, a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, pens a breathtakingly confusing op-ed on the dangers of, not only outsourcing toy manufacturing, but allowing "licensed toys" (Dora, Barbie, etc...) from being introduced to our children. "Young people" just haven't...

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The Political Question of Divorce -- Oh, and Strippers

Posted August 16, 2007 | 12:27 PM (EST)


My Denver Post column yesterday comments on the "morality" question some Republican candidates will be wrestling with as they vie for the immeasurably important evangelical vote. I spoke with a public policy expert at Focus on the Family. A gracious and super intelligent guy, who, in his own...

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What's Missing Here? How About "Free Speech"?

Posted August 7, 2007 | 02:33 PM (EST)


The New York City Council may be on the verge of banning the slur "bitch." Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, who introduced the measure, claims the word creates "a paradigm of shame and indignity" for all women. The word is certainly offensive. The movement to restrict speech, far...

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