Ben Boychuk is associate editor of City Journal, where he writes on education and California politics. Previously, he served as managing editor of the Heartland Institute's School Reform News and the Claremont Review of Books. He is also a former editorial writer for Investor's Business Daily and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.

Boychuk writes a weekly column for the Sacramento Bee and Scripps-Howard News Service. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the New York Post, National Review Online, the Korea Times and newspapers across the United States.

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Articles/Op-eds

• Yes, Governor, 'Stuff' Happens -- and Sometimes We Let It Happen, The Sacramento Bee, 05-11-13
• Little 'Core,' Too Much 'Common' In Reading List , The Sacramento Bee, 03-25-13
• For his next crisis, New York Post, 12-07-12
• Should States Tax Internet Sales?, New York Daily News, 07-14-12
• California's Crazy Train, New York Post, 07-11-12
• Not California's Last Bankrupt City, New York Post, 06-28-12
• California Screaming, New York Post, 05-17-12
• Should Congress Adopt the Rubio version of the DREAM Act?, The Sacramento Bee, 04-26-12
• Should UC Overhaul How Campus Police Handle Student Protests?, The Sacramento Bee, 04-19-12
• Obama Would Smear Court To Save Health Law, The Sacramento Bee, 04-06-12
• Should California Abandon Its High-Speed Rail Project?, The Sacramento Bee, 03-15-12
• Should Radio Stations and Advertisers Drop Rush Limbaugh?, The Sacramento Bee, 03-08-12
• Should Birth Control Be Considered An 'Essential Benefit' In Health Plans?, The Sacramento Bee, 03-01-12
• Should California Go Back To Having a Part-Time Legislature?, The Sacramento Bee, 02-16-12
• Who Is Gingrich?, New York Daily News, 01-22-12
• When Do Police Resort Too Quickly To Violence?, Red Blue America, 11-27-11
• Is 'Regularity Uncertainty' Holding Back the Economy?, Ohio News-Herald, 10-23-11
• What Does Occupy Movement Mean?, Scripps Howard News Service, 10-15-11
• Do Wall Street Protesters Have A Point? What Are The Solutions?, New York Post, 10-12-11
• Should Congress Revamp and Renew the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act?, The Sacramento Bee, 10-05-11
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Podcasts

• Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis discuss gun control and the right to self-defense with Craig Whitney, author of "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment.", 05-03-13
• Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis talk to Richard Immerman about his latest book, "Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz.", 02-20-13
• City Journal's Ben Boychuk and Philadelphia Magazine's Joel Mathis discuss freedom of speech on campus with Greg Lukianoff, author of "Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American, 12-21-12
• City Journal's Ben Boychuk and Philadelphia Magazine's Joel Mathis discuss presidential power with Stephen K. Knott, author of "Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and his Critics.", 12-10-12
• City Journal's Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis talk to Charles Kesler, author of "I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism.", 11-05-12
• Manhattan Institute senior fellow Daniel DiSalvo discusses with City Journal's Ben Boychuk how California's public-employee unions win elections, 10-08-12
• Ben Boychuk of City Journal California interviews Tom Gray about his new report and California's upcoming ballot initiatives., 09-24-12
• Tom Gray discusses his City Journal article, "California Needs a Crude Awakening" with Ben Boychuk., 09-03-12
• Joel Kotkin discusses his City Journal article, "Let L.A. Be L.A.", 07-29-12
• Ben Boychuk interviews Troy Senik about his City Journal article, specifically the claim that the California Teachers Association is the worst union in America, 04-13-12

City Journal articles

• Smile and Be a Villain, Spring 2013
• Jury Tampering, 10 May 2013
• A Mighty Wind, 19 February 2013
• “Irrational Outcomes” in California, 19 June 2012
• Guns and Roses, 5 April 2012
• The Union’s Occupation, 28 October 2011
• Buffalo’s Parent Revolt, 8 July 2011
• Locking the Parent Trigger, 7 June 2011
• Triggering School Reform in California, 3 March 2011
• Arnold’s Worst Idea, 9 February 2010