August 28, 2013
Why focus on Walmart and McDonald’s?
I really liked Megan McArdle’s column and Jason’s post about it this morning. They both nicely illustrate how a lot of the resistance to Walmart and McDonald’s in particular is…
Author: Jessica Flanigan
July 26, 2013
Weekend Links
Here are some totally random links I stumbled upon this week that I thought may be of interest. Have a great weekend! First, this essay by Alec Karakatsanis tells a…
May 28, 2013
Effective Altruism for BHL’s
In Peter Singer’s new TED talk, he tries to answer the question of how to give most effectively. The talk starts with a short summary of his famous argument for…
April 16, 2013
Patents, Property, and Genes
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether human genes may be patented. The case centers on a dispute between a group of researchers and patient advocates and Myriad…
March 18, 2013
Why Limit PAD to the Terminally Ill?
While catching up on the recent Cato Unbound conversations, I just read through Howard Ball’s lead essay and Philip Nitschke’s response about physician assisted death. Ball argues that a terminally…
January 05, 2013
Freedom and Feminism
For those just tuning in, the latest libertarian internet dust up surrounds Julie Borowski’s video about why there are not more libertarian women. In it, she argues that women are…