P. Gardner Goldsmith
Writer, Television Scriptwriter, Lecturer
gardgoldsmith

Gardner Goldsmith is a television scriptwriter, journalist, syndicated radio host, and lecturer in political-economics. He has spent time in the script departments of “The Outer Limits” and “Star Trek: Voyager”, and, in addition to his debut novella, “Bite” (selected by Ginger Nuts of Horror as one of the best novellas of 2013), and follow-ups, “Fishing” and “Wall”, his prose and poetry have been published in the US and UK. His fiction is available via Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and through local bookstores, so feel free to dive in! 

Goldsmith’s 2007 non-fiction book, “Live Free or Die”, was selected by the Freedom Book Club as a Book of the Month, and his articles on political economics have appeared in the US and UK in such publications and on such websites as Human Events, TechCentralStation, Naked, The Freeman (A Publication of the Foundation for Economic Education), Mises Daily, Investor’s Business Daily, The NH Union Leader, and MRCTV.

He is also a teacher of political-economics and philosophy at various schools in New Hampshire. His SUBSTACK? This link: Substack is HERE. Check it out!

0
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 24, 2018
Leave it to the Bezos-owned Washington Post to publish even more fake news when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh. As Amber Athey notes for The Daily Caller, the WaPo’s Emily Heil reported on October 18 that Kavanaugh’s alma mater, Georgetown Prep, was hiring a “director of alumni relations” and that the school posted the ad for the position that week. The article further suggested that the school…
Video
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 24, 2018
How long will this go on? Americans have seen Hobby Lobby fight in the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) to assert the right to not comply with a federal Obamacare mandate that the “closely held” corporation buy health insurance covering contraceptives and abortifascients. Americans have witnessed the sad spectacle of the folks behind the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop fight in the…
Video
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 11, 2018
On October 8, well-known attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz did something that will likely increase the invective directed at him by collectivists who dislike him appearing on FoxNews in opposition to the ever-expanding, often groundless, Mueller “Russia” probe. This time, he wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Examiner, a piece in which he correctly excoriates the American…
0
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 10, 2018
One of the most entertaining Youtube channels in recent years is “The Outer Light”, created and run by the smart, insightful, and very funny, Esoteric ED (the “ED” standing for “Esoteric Detective”). ED comments on all kinds of stories, some of which lead to mere speculation, some of which he dissects like a scalpel-wielding researcher over a pithed frog. And one of ED’s best known sayings when…
0
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 9, 2018
When I lecture on political philosophy, I often begin with Plato and Socrates. Plato was the man who claimed he chronicled Socrates’ “paripatetic” lectures, in which he’d walk about Athens and bug people to engage him in straw man philosophical debates that would make him look really bright. Sometimes Socrates was on the ball, and other times (many) he was off base. One of those was his argument…
0
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 4, 2018
This is one of the most delightful, yet ethically challenging, follow-ups I’ve ever had the chance to write. Recall the piece and video I wrote and shot in June, entitled, “Social Psych Report: Frisky Dogs in Parks Are Part of America’s ‘Rape Culture’”? It was the story about a self-described “serious” academic journal called “Gender, Place, and Culture,” that published a “social psychology…
0
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 2, 2018
The Supreme Court of the United States opened its spectacular new session by hearing a case so absurd, many people might wonder why it’s a matter for the courts. It’s a matter for the courts because the Fish and Wildlife Service exists, and repeatedly infringes on private property rights, contrary to the supposed raison d’etre of government itself. Of course, many perspicacious thinkers will…
Video
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 2, 2018
  Once Upon a Time… Human beings, through millennia of interaction, developed a non-physical tool to facilitate better relationships, foster peace, and allow for trade, proper resource allocation, discovery, and better living standards. Over the centuries, it was given a title of “rights”, based on old English and old Germanic for what was “proper”. The idea wasn’t alien, wasn’t created in…
Video
P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 28, 2018
One need not be cynical to sneer at the high profile politicians who control London and tell people that their fanciful statutory “bans” on guns and knives will do anything save put innocent people at increased risk of violent crime. In fact, a new story by Selwyn Duke, of The New American reveals that loving parents in London are responding to the shocking rise in knife crime, not by…
Video
P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 25, 2018
  What a hero. On September 20, California Governor Jerry Brown ponied up to the bar and signed California’s “straw statute”, a “law” that will make it illegal for restaurant employees to offer straws in drinks unless customers ask for them. A Scott Shackford writes for Reason: Brown rarely puts out statements when he signs bills, but he specifically did for AB 1889, noting that plastics…