P. Gardner Goldsmith
Writer, Television Scriptwriter, Lecturer
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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!

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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 13, 2018
President Trump yesterday proposed a massive change in the federal “Food Stamp” program that is just getting attention, and lots of praise. It’s being heralded as a long-due adjustment that will eliminate misuse, and bring a semblance of common sense to the system – the kind of thing “only a business owner could do in Washington”. But it is also open to some justified criticism for its lack of…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 11, 2018
Last year, author and attorney Baylen Linnekin wrote an Op-Ed for the Sacramento Bee that opened the eyes of many folks to a fantastic new development in dining. Imagine this: You’re a hungry go-getter, and don’t want to do your own cooking tonight. You could call for delivery, and the options aren’t bad. You could pick it up yourself, and, again, the options are pretty much the same. But what…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 9, 2018
On February 8, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul used his time to speak on the Senate floor in two very constructive ways. First, he exposed the fact that the Senate had been given just 12 hours to read the 700-page omnibus spending bill. Second, he shed light on numerous little-known and bizarre federal expenditures over the past few years. Here are some of his greatest hits: One. Between 2011 and…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 7, 2018
What’s your favorite part of the Constitution? Is it that portion allowing Congress to magically grant the president the power to create “National Parks” and “National Monuments” with a wave of his own ink-filled magic wand? Sure, those “powers” don’t appear in the supposed rulebook. But they’re so much fun, and execs at the clothing company Patagonia agree. In fact, they are very upset at…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 6, 2018
There’s a very old saying in the fashion industry, “What’s old is what’s new again," which, come to think of it, would mean that the saying itself is new, but regardless, it’s been around, and it perfectly applies to politics as well. It certainly applies to the “hot” idea of a “universal basic income," which, as I mentioned here at the MRC a few weeks ago, is being tested in Finland. Well, guess…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 2, 2018
(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Gabrielle Spradling) Everyone knows that ideas originating in Chicago have got to be brilliant. After all, they elected Rahm Emanuel as their mayor, and what a guy he is. So what could possibly go wrong with the New Mexico legislature considering a plan to force high-schoolers to apply to college as a condition of their escaping the twelve-year public…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 1, 2018
A professor at Michigan State University and an “antiracist facilitator” from Kalamazoo College are much more sensitive than you bounders and cads -- and they want you to know it. They’ve temporarily taken the reins of the intellectual hell-ride known as “Cultural Appropriation”, and are driving it a hard and fast towards its absurdist terminus. How are they making an already silly argument more…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 28, 2018
Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter and his insurance commission just did something that’s likely to give leftists palpitations. They’re allowing a little more freedom for health insurance companies doing business in the state, and their move is not a moment too soon. According to the Associates Press’ Rebecca Boone, who seems to be frustrated by the policy, Otter and his Insurance Director, Dean…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 24, 2018
We’re all friends here, right? Then I hope you won’t find me disagreeable when I note that on Monday, January 22, President Trump made a couple mistakes from which we can learn. On Monday, the President signed an Executive Order increasing tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels, all, of course, to the delight of many Americans who believe that certain foreign goods are being “…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 23, 2018
Sometimes, as Americans concentrate time and energy on “Big Issues” like lowering the corporate tax rate, decreasing regulations, and trying to avoid the incessant torture of hashtag culture, other important issues slip under the political limbo bar. And on January 19, Reason Magazine’s Zach Weissmuller and Mark McDaniel turned the spotlight on one of them: the seeming metastasis of state and…