Contending with Demons
One Cheer for Prohibition
In response to: “Two Kaisers in the Same Grave”: Prohibition at 100

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Fukuyama’s Hollow Nation-State
When Public Morality Lost Its Foothold: The Unheeded Wisdom of Harry Clor
Let’s Talk about Sex
The Problem with the “Simple Principle” of Liberty
In response to: Can Libertarianism Be a Governing Philosophy?
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Boise State University’s Blueprint for Social Justice
A Modest Proposal to Create a New Humanity
Henry T. Greely’s The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction defends the idea that “Easy PGD” (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis) will soon replace sexual reproduction as the primary way human beings enter the world. “Easy PGD” is a logical scientific development beyond in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF involves fertilizing an egg harvested from a woman with a sperm and then placing the embryo into a uterus. “Difficult” PGD combines IVF with a genetic screen of the prospective embryos for attributes that parents would find desirable in their children and implanting the chosen embryo into the uterus. The “Easy” version…
Innovation and the Families of the Future
Steven Horwitz’s Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions uses the Austrian economist’s mode of analysis: marriage and the family are seen as the products of undirected environmental changes, products that arose to meet functions important to human survival and flourishing. By “modern family,” Horwitz means marriages that are the result of choice and affection, where each in the couple is equal and independent, where children are valued sentimentally, and where the family enjoys privacy from community and politics. For him, the “modern family” is an adaptation to changes in our environment brought about through efficient free-market…