March 14, 2018

A chat about libertarianism, pregnancy, and birth

[This chat was inspired by the realization that both Jessica Flanigan and I blog at BHL and both do work on pregnancy and birth but we hadn’t yet connected. So…

April 13, 2017

Design, Complexity, and Freedom

Design, Autonomy, and Complexity I just got back from a grand rounds presentation with Neel Shah, a medical researcher and OB/GYN whose current research concerns overtreatment. One of the most…

December 06, 2016

Privilege, Risk, and Harm

Trump’s victory has triggered a spate of post-hoc analysis about what went wrong. One of the major narratives to take root is that Trump’s win was fueled by a rejection…

November 02, 2016

A Pro-Life Libertarian Case for Abortion Rights

A Pro-Life Libertarian Case for Abortion Rights Partial birth abortion is now back in the national spotlight after the last presidential debate. Many of my most thoughtful libertarian friends are…

August 26, 2016

The Fatal Conceit of Youthful Idealism

J.K. Rowling came down hard on Twitter two days ago, destroying the bonafides of orphanage volunteering programs (from here on out to be known as the “orphan industrial complex”), whereby…

March 22, 2016

Moral Intuitions and Regulation of Surrogacy

A gestational surrogate in California is currently suing the man who hired her for custody of at least one of the triplets she delivered in March of this year. She…