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…
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April 13, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part I)
For my first few posts, I want to write some things about rights. I plan to write on human rights and on property rights in the future. But first I…
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…
March 15, 2013
Tomasi Book Workshop Part I
The Pacific APA is holding an author meets critics session on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness in late March. I’m one of the critics, along with Steve Wall and Paul Gowder….
February 11, 2013
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Property
People often say that BHL violates the “non-aggression axiom.” After all, BHL is in principle okay with certain forms of government-sponsored social insurance schemes, if these turn out to be…
February 05, 2013
Blogging at Libertarianism.Org, Part 4: Liberty and Property
Speaking of property, my latest at Libertarianism.org is up, looking at the relationship between freedom and property. The controversial part of my thesis, at least for libertarians I guess, is…