| Brian Doherty | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 1, 1968 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Occupation | Author and Editor |
| Nationality | American |
Brian Doherty (born June 1, 1968) is an American journalist. He is a Senior Editor at Reason magazine. He is the author of This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground (Little, Brown, 2004), Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007) and Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment (Cato Institute, 2008).
Before working for the Cato Institute in the early '90s, Doherty served as an intern at Liberty Magazine and wrote on music and popular culture at The Independent Florida Alligator. As a student at the University of Florida, Doherty played bass in several punk rock bands, including The Jeffersons and Turbo Satan. He founded Cherry Smash Records in 1993.
Doherty has said that he is a "principled nonvoter" who has "been saved the embarrassment of ever having to feel any sense of responsibility, of even the smallest size, for the actions of any politician."[1] He supports capitalist anarchism.
Doherty has written that so-called "Islamists" are "not a mortal threat to Western civilization ... and do not warrant the suppression of civil liberties or the huge cost, in lives and money, of the wars waged by Bush and Barack Obama."[2]