Articles by Alan W. Dowd
- Is Football on Its Deathbed? Sunday, May 5, 2013
- Lawsuits over players’ brain injuries have some saying football is dead. In fact, it has dislodged baseball as the national pastime and will remain America’s ...
- Measuring Freedom around the World Monday, March 18, 2013
- The new Human Freedom Index reminds us there is much work to do to restrain the leviathan and expand liberty in the twenty-first century — at home and abroad.
- A Bigger Ten: In Defense of Conference Expansion Friday, November 30, 2012
- A question of dollars and sense: why you should embrace college sports conference disruption.
- Retiring the World’s Policeman Wednesday, August 3, 2011
- President Obama and his Tea Party rivals find themselves on the same side of defense cuts. This is bad news for the country.
- The High Cost of Volunteering Tuesday, March 31, 2009
- The Obama administration’s costly AmeriCorps plans take the volunteer out of volunteerism.
- Paying the Price? Wednesday, January 9, 2008
- In a year of sports shame, the Major League Baseball steroid controversy was the biggest scandal of all. But it may not hurt MLB profits in 2008, writes ALAN ...
- Fixing the BCS Mess Thursday, December 6, 2007
- College football should bow to reality and devise a workable playoff system, says ALAN W. DOWD.
- The Decline and Fall of Declinism Tuesday, August 28, 2007
- Some people don’t want to admit it, but America is in great shape.