17 Facts About Doug Bandow

Douglas Bandow was born on April 15,1957 and is an American political writer working as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

In 2005, Bandow was forced to resign from the Cato Institute after it was revealed that for over ten years, he accepted payments in exchange for publishing articles favorable to various clients.

Doug Bandow referred to the activities as "a lapse of judgment" and said that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles," each article costing approximately $2,000.

Doug Bandow was allowed to return to the Cato Institute.

Doug Bandow regularly writes on military non-interventionism, and is a critic of NATO enlargement.

Doug Bandow obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1976.

Doug Bandow completed a JD degree from the Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California in 1979.

Doug Bandow worked in the Reagan administration as special assistant to the president and edited the political magazine Inquiry.

Doug Bandow resigned from Cato in December, 2005 after admitting he accepted payments from lobbyist Jack Abramoff over approximately ten years in return for publishing articles favorable to Abramoff's clients.

In January 2006, Doug Bandow joined the non-profit Citizen Outreach as Vice President of Policy.

Doug Bandow later rejoined the Cato Institute as a Senior Fellow, where he continues to publish through its various outlets and appear at various Cato-sponsored events.

Doug Bandow is on the faculty of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

Doug Bandow's articles have been published in periodicals like Foreign Policy, Harper's, National Interest, National Review, The New Republic, Orbis, The American Spectator, Time, Newsweek, and Fortune, as well as newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Doug Bandow previously blogged for The Huffington Post and Forbes.

Doug Bandow has appeared as a commentator on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.

Doug Bandow is a Contributing Editor to the national security publication 19FortyFive.

Since the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, Doug Bandow authored opinion pieces on why the US should not help Ukraine against Russia.