Will Wilkinson - Writing and Commentary

Writing and Commentary

His writing has appeared in Slate, Reason, TCS Daily, National Review, the FoxNews website, and on The Economist's Free Exchange economics blog, where he was a regular contributor from 2007 onwards. As of 2010, he is one of the contributors of The Economist's Democracy in America blog under the pseudonym W.W.

Journalist Ryan Blitstein regards Wilkinson as an expert in the relationship of happiness research to public policy. He has been cited on happiness and public policy in articles in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Wilkinson appears as a commentator every other week on American Public Media's widely syndicated radio show Marketplace. He is also the host of a weekly show, Free Will, on the current affairs diavlog site Bloggingheads TV. The show runs every Sunday and features discussions of new books and ideas with writers and intellectuals.

Wilkinson frequently appears in public forums and debates with leading intellectuals. In November 2007, Wilkinson, teamed with George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen, was pitted against Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs and University of Pennsylvania economist Betsey Stevenson in a highly publicized public debate on the economic and politics of happiness sponsored by The Economist newspaper. Wilkinson has recently appeared with University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein and Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Cato Institute book forums where he offered critical comments on their recent books.