Bandow is on the faculty of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Bandow also is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. Bandow's articles have been published in periodicals like "Foreign Policy", "Harper's", "National Interest", "National Review", "The New Republic", "Orbis", "The American Spectator", "Time", "Newsweek", and "Fortune", as well as newspapers like "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", and "The Washington Post". Bandow's column "La Prensa: Economic Freedom and the Press," syndicated in 1988 by Copley News Service, won the 1989 Mencken Award for Best Editorial or Op-Ed Column. He blogs for "The Huffington Post", "Forbes",