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…
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November 11, 2016
Healing Through Decentralization
Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. He was elected in perhaps the most polarized election of the last 100 years. We have, more and more,…
October 30, 2016
Private Wars
As I write these lines, innocent civilians are killed or threatened by rulers, warlords, or other groups throughout the world. As some of you know, for many years I have…
June 21, 2016
National Partiality and the Rights of Foreigners
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo We claim that immigration restrictions and liberalism are incompatible. One response to our argument is that states have stronger obligations to their citizens than…
June 10, 2016
Libertarianism and the Varieties of Virtue
In Reason, William Ruger and Jason Sorens seek to offer an alternative to the sort of thick libertarianism to which many of those associated with the Center for a Stateless…
June 08, 2016
Of Kangaroo Courts and Unicorns: Venues in College Rape Cases
(Co-authored with Sarah Skwire) Judge Aaron Persky recently gave convicted rapist Brock Turner a six month sentence, to be served at a county jail. Despite the fact that Turner was…