Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the author of over a dozen books, including Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government and How Capitalism Saved America. A professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Barron's, among many other publications. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.