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Paternalism

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Paternalism

Consistent Paternalists Should Back Restrictions on Voters, Too

In an important new article, political philosophers Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman explain why standard justifications for paternalistic restrictions on consumers also apply to voters.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.1.2022 5:54 PM

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Regulation

The FDA's Menthol Cigarette Ban Is a 'Racial Justice' Issue, but Not in the Way Its Supporters Mean

The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2022 3:25 PM

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Alcohol

When Forced To Choose, Some New Mexico Gas Station Liquor Stores Will Now Just Sell Liquor

A paternalistic new law is having unintended consequences.

Baylen Linnekin | 9.25.2021 6:20 AM

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Immigration

Biden Administration Imposes Cruel Border Restriction Barring Mexicans from Crossing to the US to Sell Blood Plasma

By exacerbating an already severe blood plasma shortage, the new policy will cost lives - and also deprive poor Mexicans of much-needed income.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.25.2021 3:57 PM

Too Much Information

Volokh Conspiracy

Two Important New Books on Knowledge, Bias, and Paternalism

Recent works by longtime intellectual antagonists Cass Sunstein (author of "Too Much Information") and Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman (authors of "Escaping Paternalism") have a surprising amount of common ground.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.16.2020 11:57 PM

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Public Health

When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?

Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2020 6:00 AM

Epidemics

Is It Paternalism to Protect You from the Plague?

Keith E. Whittington |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.20.2020 9:54 AM

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Public Health

The CDC's Shift From Vaping to COVID-19 Highlights the Crucial Differences Between Real and Metaphorical Epidemics

The agency's scaremongering about e-cigarettes undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2020 2:40 PM

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Alcohol

Alabama Bans Margarita Pitchers, Declaring Them Adulterated

Regulators say six separate drinks are fine, but combining them in one vessel is a crime.

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2017 7:35 PM

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Chuck Schumer Is Protecting the Nation From Snortable Chocolate [Reason Podcast]

Reason editors discuss Trump's Warsaw speech, the Putin meeting, Mike Pence's Mars shot, and more.

Andrew Heaton and Ian Keyser | 7.10.2017 4:45 PM

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Alcohol

Another Blow Against the Petty Tyranny of Blue Laws

Minnesota becomes the 39th state to allow Sunday liquor sales.

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2017 12:01 AM

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UFC

UFC: One Man's Brutal Spectacle Is Another's Eden

People have a right to do what they want with their own bodies.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.18.2016 12:00 PM

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Soda Taxes

Philadelphia's New Soda Tax Has Nothing to Do With Obesity

The city council rejected regressive paternalism in favor of a simple money grab.

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2016 6:30 AM

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Politics

"Don't Ban Smoking in Public Housing"

Proposed rule treats poor people like children and exposes government paternalism at its most naked.

Nick Gillespie | 11.24.2015 2:14 PM

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Medicine

Bailey Lecturing in Russia and Ukraine on the Liberation of Medicine

How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex

Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2015 9:07 AM

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Politics

The Terrifying Faces of Alcohol Inhalation

It is "worse than butt-chugging."

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2015 1:22 PM

Policy

Ebola and the CDC's Dangerous Mission Drift

Controlling contagious diseases is just one of many items on the agency's to-do list.

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

"Go Fruve Yourself!"; Sad-Sack Govt Attempt at Nutritional Advice Just May Start Revolution.

Nick Gillespie | 3.18.2014 11:40 AM

Policy

Brain-Dead Paternalism

Against forced plug-pulling and cadaveric incubation.

Ronald Bailey | 1.17.2014 1:30 PM

Bioethics

Ronald Bailey Opposes Brain-Dead Paternalism

Reason Staff | 1.17.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Kennedy's Big Government Paternalism

Remembering the darker side of the liberal senator's legacy

Cathy Young | 8.31.2009 3:00 PM

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