Tom palmer bio

American writer (born 1956)

This article is about the writer. For other people with the name "Tom Palmer", see Tom Palmer (disambiguation).

Thomas Gordon Palmer (; born 1956, Bitburg-Mötsch, West Germany) is an American libertarian author and theorist, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network.

Professional life

Palmer earned his B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, and his doctorate in political science from Oxford University. At Oxford, Palmer was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College^[1] and the President of the Oxford Hayek Society.^[2]

Palmer has been active in the promotion of libertarian and classical liberal ideas and policies since the early 1970s.

He has been editor of several publications, including Dollars & Sense (the newspaper of the National Taxpayers Union), Update, and the Tom Palmer (author) - Wikipedia WUS