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John Hood

Email: jhood@johnlocke.org

John Hood is President and Chairman of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina think tank that issues policy studies, hosts dozens of events each year, produces radio and TV programs, and publishes Carolina Journal, a monthly newspaper with a readership of nearly 200,000 North Carolinians. Hood helped to found JLF in 1989.

In addition to his duties at JLF, Hood is a syndicated columnist for the High Point Enterprise, the Gaston Gazette, the Durham Herald-Sun, and newspapers in 50 other North Carolina communities. He is a regular radio commentator and a weekly panelist on “N.C. Spin,” a discussion program that is broadcast on 16 television stations in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Greenville, Wilmington, Asheville, and elsewhere. He also created “Carolina Journal Radio,” a weekly newsmagazine broadcast on 18 radio stations.

Hood’s latest book is Selling the Dream: Why Advertising is Good Business (Praeger, 2005). Adweek raved that Selling the Dream offered “a refreshing argument” for the role advertising plays in benefiting consumers. Choice rated the book as “highly recommended,” concluding that “Hood provides a fascinating look into the world of advertising and beyond to support his view that advertising provides a societal good.”

He is also the author of Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the 21st Century (Templeton Foundation Press, 2001). “John Hood has produced a timely and informative account of...the most significant demographic shift of this century — the rise of a shareholder democracy in America,” said Jack Kemp. National Review called Investor Politics “chock-full of interesting historical anecdotes, clever policy analysis, and surprising musings.”

In 1994-95, Hood was a Bradley Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s premier conservative think tank. At Heritage, he researched and wrote a book entitled The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (The Free Press, 1996). The Wall Street Journal praised Hood’s book for “demonstrating the nexus between market incentives and socially desirable outcomes” and for providing “an avalanche of examples of Adam Smith’s invisible hand at work in the modern corporation.”

Hood writes and comments frequently on politics and policy issues for national media organizations. He covers state politics for National Review Online and blogs daily at NRO’s “The Corner.” His articles have appeared in both magazines — such as Readers’ Digest, The New Republic, National Review, Military History, and Reason — and in newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He’s been interviewed by, among other news media, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, CNN, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, and the Fox News Channel.

Hood received his degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded a student magazine called The Carolina Critic in the mid-1980s that ultimately grew to encompass five campus editions (at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, and Wake Forest University). He is a Mecklenburg County native and currently resides in Wake County with his sons Alex and Andrew.


Articles by John Hood

(9.03.10) No Surprise On ObamaCare Costs
A new study is being described as “surprising” because it undercuts the promise of ObamaCare to cut health care costs by reducing emergency-room visits.

(9.02.10) North Carolina Isn’t the Worst
Never let it be said that I don’t report good news about North Carolina when it crosses my desk.

(9.01.10) Flashback: Freedom to Teach Nonsense?
Academic freedom cannot be construed as a shield protecting professors and instructors from professional evaluation and personal responsibility.

(8.31.10) From Disaster Rises Reform
It would be best if it didn’t take a disaster, natural or educational, for North Carolina policymakers to recognize the error of their ways.

(8.30.10) It Should Be No Surprise
The truth about emergency-room costs has been clear for years to those willing to look at the evidence.

(8.27.10) Why Shouldn’t They Be Believed?
I believe Wallace’s explanation that the reason the Perdue team had failed to report the 42 flights was because the campaign kept sloppy records.

(8.26.10) Why Shouldn’t I Believe Them?
I believe Wallace’s explanation that the reason the Perdue team had failed to report the 42 flights was because the campaign kept sloppy records.

(8.25.10) Tell the Right from the Left
If you seek to distinguish the political Right from the political Left in America, there’s no shortage of ways to do it.

(8.24.10) When Washington Started a War
It was the war that made America, and George Washington was involved right from the beginning. But don’t think Trenton or Yorktown.

(8.23.10) Tax Reform Would Pay Dividends
Investors and entrepreneurs respond to incentives. Right now, the messages they are receiving from the public sector are hostile, intrusive, and punitive.

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