Articles and Papers by Brian Schwartz

2007

2006

2005

Dynamic properties of photonic crystals and their effective refractive index,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 22, 9, 2018-2026.

A New Path: Ultralow-index metamaterials present new possibilities for controlling light propagation, OE Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 2005

2004

October 13: I'm on TV talking about the elections and democracy-worship

Power to the People, not Bureaucrats: Can elections breed apathy & intolerance?, Colorado Daily Local Voices · print edition

quoted in Colorado Daily for speech at Second Amendment Rally.

quoted in Colorado Daily & Daily Camera about Desomond Tutu speech.

S.H.E.: Support for Hidden Extortion: letter, and quote in a news article

Waveguiding in air by total external reflection from ultralow index metamaterials, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1 (2004). [pdf]

Joy vs. sacrifice

Open Letter to a 'Living Wage' Advocate

2003

Compulsory Charity Stunts True Philanthropy, Boulder Daily Camera, October 19.
on-line edition · election result (quoted)

A Choice or a Disease?: quoted in Colorado Daily

Quoted in the Colorado Daily on artificial turf at CU

Guns in Broomfield: Daily Camera, August 8, 2003

Guns on Campus? Daily Camera guest Opinion, June 29, 2003 · print edition

Heads vs. Feds Misses the Point · Also in the Colorado Daily

Letters (and responses) about Bowling for Columbine

Giving up personal safety for a gun-free campus: Colorado Daily, March 4, 2003

Guns on Campus: Don't hold others hostage with your fears

Saying "No" to Red Light Cameras

2002

Marxist Sociology Grad Student Demands "Living Wage": Not, it's not an Onion article.

True Goals of Government Schools: Letter to the Editor.

"Living" Wage Campaign Wants Your Life

2001

"Gun Control" vs. the Poor

Proper Definition of Atheism: Letter to the Editor, Boulder Weekly.

Not "Left", not "Right", not Authoritarian, Libertarian.

2000

Guns and Crime: Letter to the Editor.

Healthcare: Letter to the Editor.

1999

Victim Disarmamant: Letter to the Editor.

Welfare "Rights": Letter to the Palo Alto Weekly

1998

Rent Control: Letter to the Editor.

1997

Slavery: Letter to the Editor.

"You Owe It": Song parody.

True Liberalism: Essay. Today's "liberals" are nothing but.

"Survival of the Fittest" Misunderstood: Letter to the Editor.

Political Power and Race: Letter to the Editor.

Freedom does not "Work": Ask not what your country can force others to do for you.

Attributes as Entities in Pre-Socratic and Platonic Philosophy: Woops, attributes are not entities.

Essence in Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics: Is it Epistemological or Metaphysical?

"On Account of What" is that Body Alive?: Reading Aristotle's De Anima

Community Service: Essay.

"Liberal" Close Mindedness: Essay.

1996

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism: academic paper.

I Voted for the Tall Skinny Guy: "What I am, what you see, is exactly what I chose to be, I'm a self-made man." -- David Byrne.

Editorial Policy: I'm such a smartass.

Need is Not a Claim on Wealth: The hidden premise of welfare "rights".

Taxes as "membership dues": Why people don't consider taxation to be robbery, and do not apply the same laws to government as they do their neighbors.

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War: Book Review

Indoctrination: The Roots of Government Schools

Disproof of a Creator of the Universe

1995

The Invisible Fist: Essay.

Alumni Selflessness Versus Self-Interest: Rational selfishness, not selfless altruism, is the root of benevolence and non-profit organizations.

Neural Darwinism and Concept Formation: Combining Objectivist epistemology with Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman's theory on the mind.

False Alternatives: "...every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all."

Intolerance of "Liberals": Letters to the Editor.

Comments on Living Up...to the Truth, by Rabbi Dr. David Gottleib: The Rabbi tries to prove that Judaism is correct.

1994

1993

Grunge: Fashion of Faux Poverty: Essay.