Education
He completed a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford in Palo Alto, California in 1979.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Doug Bandow
Edit ProfileCareer
He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He writes regularly on military non-interventionism. Bandow obtained his bachelor"s degree in economics from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1976.
He worked in the Reagan administration as special assistant to the president and edited the political magazine Inquiry.
Bandow resigned from Cato in December, 2005 after admitting he accepted payments from lobbyist Jack Abramoff over approximately ten years in return for publishing articles favorable to Abramoff"s clients. The articles identified his affiliation with Cato, but he did not tell Cato about the payments.
He has referred to these activities as "a lapse of judgment" and said that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles" Copley News Service, which had carried Bandow"s syndicated column for a number of years, suspended him immediately. In January 2006, Bandow joined the non-profit Citizen Outreach as Vice President of Policy.
Bandow later rejoined the Cato Institute as a Senior Fellow, where he continues to publish through its various outlets and appear at various Cato-sponsored events.
Bandow is on the faculty of the Acton Institute. Bandow also is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. Bandow’s articles have been published in periodicals like Foreign Policy, Harper"s, National Interest, National Review, The New Republic, Orbis, The American Spectator, Time, Newsweek, and Fortune, as well as newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
He blogs for The Huffington Post, Forbes, and is a former columnist for Antiwar.com.
He has appeared as a commentator on American Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company, Cable News Network, Fox News Channel, and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.
