Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

The Ethics of Carbon Pricing

In 2009, US President Barack Obama appointed Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein to be…

Quitting While on Top

Last month, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s 42-year-old prime minister, resigned her office, despite the support of a…

Abortion and Democracy in America

Every woman should have the legal right safely to terminate a pregnancy that she does…

Why Vaccination Should be Compulsory

I’m writing from Victoria, the Australian state that became, in 1970, the first jurisdiction in…

The Measure of Moral Progress

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress,” Mahatma Gandhi said, “can be judged…

Keeping Discussion Free

Last month, the Journal of Controversial Ideas – of which I am a co-editor –…