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Richard E. Sincere Jr.
Richard E. Sincere, Jr., a widely-published analyst of foreign policy issues and domestic political topics, is president of Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty (GLIL), a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to free markets, individual responsibility, and personal liberty. He is the owner of a consulting firm, the Arlington Research Group.
Sincere was director of international economic affairs at the International Freedom Foundation in Washington, D.C, editor-in-chief of terra nova, IFF's quarterly journal of free market economic and political thought, and editor of Sub-Saharan Monitor, a bimonthly newsletter of Africa affairs.
He worked in the office of public affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was a research associate at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he specialized in U.S. defense policy and U.S.-African relations.
Sincere earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Politics of Sentiment: Churches and Foreign Investment in South Africa and Sowing the Seeds of Free Enterprise: The Politics of U.S. Economic Aid in Africa, as well as co-editor (with Zbigniew Brzezinski) of Promise or Peril: The Strategic Defense Initiative.
His articles have appeared in the Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, San Diego Union-Tribune, and many other papers, as well as in such publications as Strategic Review, Global Affairs, America, This World, Crisis, and Journal of Civil Defense. Since 1995 he has been entertainment editor for The Metro Herald, a weekly newspaper in Alexandria, Va.
A correspondent and host for local cable public affairs programs, Sincere has discussed public policy on hundreds of broadcast shows. He has served as chairman of the Libertarian Party of Virginia and was elected to the national committee of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) in December 1998. Three times a candidate for elected office, he has worked on political campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels. For the academic year 1996-97, he was chairman of the Social Studies Advisory Committee for the Arlington County (Va.) Public Schools.
Richard E. Sincere Jr. may be contacted via e-mail. See also Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty.
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Contributions
- Good Intentions, Bad Laws, by Richard E. Sincere Jr., July 7, 2007
- A Consensus for Sodomy-Law Repeal, by Richard E. Sincere Jr., February 9, 2001
- Leave the Boy Scouts Alone, by Richard E. Sincere Jr., August 11, 1999
- Hate Crimes and Individual Rights, by Richard E. Sincere Jr., October 14, 1998