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September 07, 2016

The Ethicists’ Letter on Bone Marrow Compensation… and why the WHO kills people.

Peter Jaworski has done an absolutely wonderful job in drafting an open letter showing just why it is NOT unethical to pay bone marrow donors. I’ve signed this, and so…

September 06, 2016

Phones, Phones, Phones—But Not Really

Take a moment to imagine the following 2 scenarios. Scenario 1. Company A produced the ExcellaFone smartphone which was widely loved and had no problems.  It was widely regarded as…

August 18, 2016

What if we just replaced the current immigration system with Trump’s ideology test?

I ask that question at Marketwatch today:   As a TV celebrity, Donald Trump made a career out of pretending to be more successful than he really is. Now, as…

August 15, 2016

Is Democracy Going Out of Fashion? Are All Heads Together Always Smarter than Just Some Heads?

So asks conservative British Member of the European Parliament Dan Hannan in today’s Washington Examiner. I’m among his targets, though, like many critics, he confuses epistocracy with technocracy. Still, his main…

August 11, 2016

4 Ways to Be a Better Voter, in Scientific American

Here’s a nice article from Scientific American’s Mind’s September edition on becoming a better voter, including parts of an interview with me on this topic. Excerpt:   “We’ve found that having more information…

August 08, 2016

CNN Op-Ed on Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Campaign

I forgot to post this last week, but I’ve got a short piece on the Johnson/Weld Libertarian campaign at CNN. The basic idea – familiar enough to readers of BHL,…

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