Julian Sanchez

Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and contributing editor at Reason, covering privacy, technology, and politics. Former Washington Editor at Ars Technica. NYU philosophy and political science graduate.

Op Ed: The ’47 Percent’ Is a Fundamental Attribution Error

Photo: Gage Skidmore There are a number of things wrong with Mitt Romney’s now infamous suggestion that the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay federal income tax

By Julian Sanchez

/ September 23, 2012

Op Ed: The ’47 Percent’ Is a Fundamental Attribution Error

Op Ed: Pigeonholing The ’47 Percent’ Is a Logical Fallacy

Photo: Gage Skidmore There are a number of things wrong with Mitt Romney’s now infamous suggestion that the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay federal income tax

By Julian Sanchez

/ September 23, 2012

Op Ed: Pigeonholing The ’47 Percent’ Is a Logical Fallacy

Post 9/11 National Security Has Hardly Made Us More Safe

Photo: blog.tsa.gov Over at the New York Times, reporter Scott Shane announces the beginning of a running dialogue about how to strike “the proper balance between liberty and

By Julian Sanchez

/ July 27, 2012

Post 9/11 National Security Has Hardly Made Us More Safe

FDA Conducts Sweeping Electronic Surveillance Operation

Photo: natural.tv [Last] weekend, the New York Times reports on a sweeping electronic surveillance operation carried out not by the FBI, NSA, or CIA, but by… the Food and

By Julian Sanchez

/ July 21, 2012

FDA Conducts Sweeping Electronic Surveillance Operation

US Wiretap Data Getting Worse

The annual Wiretap Report released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts only captures the tiny tip of our vast electronic surveillance iceberg, but it does at least

By Julian Sanchez

/ July 13, 2012

Numbers for Cellphone Wiretaps by Government Don't Add Up

[Yesterday], I wrote about an important New York Times report revealing, for the first time ever, the astonishing scale of government surveillance of cell phone users. In response to queries

By Julian Sanchez

/ July 10, 2012

Numbers for Cellphone Wiretaps by Government Don't Add Up