David Boaz es vicepresidente ejecutivo del Cato Institute, uno de los think-tanks liberales más activos de Washington. Publica regularmente en The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal y Chicago Tribune. Entre sus publicaciones se cuentan Left, Right, and Babyboom: America's New Politics; Assessing the Reagan Years; The Crisis in Drug Prohibition; Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City; An American Vision: Policies for the '90s y Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century.