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David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute, described by Rolling Stone as "the hottest think-tank in Washington." He is the editor of Left, Right, and Babyboom: America's New Politics; Assessing the Reagan Years; The Crisis in Drug Prohibition ; and Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City ; and coeditor with Edward H. Crane of An American Vision: Policies for the '90s, Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, and Cato Handbook on Policy. An expert on such issues as the failure of big government, the politics of the baby-boom generation, drug prohibition, and educational choice, Boaz writes widely on those subjects and others in such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. He previously served as editor of New Guard magazine and executive director of the Council for a Competitive Economy. Boaz is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and currently lives in Washington, D.C.