Public Talks
The Medicalization of Birth and Death: A lecture on how regulations contribute to medicalization, with a discussion of potential reforms.
Healthcare in an Ethical Upside Down: A lecture that looks at the ways in which the structure of our healthcare system challenges each of the major bioethical principles medicine claims to protect. Talk can be modified to look at birth and maternity care or aging and end-of-life issues specifically. See this video for one version of this talk.
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Freedom, the Family, and Civil Society: A lecture on the role of the family in balancing the claims of individuals and the communities to which they belong. Tackles current issues in family studies, including same-sex marriage, polygamy, and other relevant topics. You can see one version of this talk here.
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Evolution and Freedom: A lecture on the relationship between classical liberal thought and evolutionary theory, emphasizing the biological foundation for classical liberal institutions like property rights and a private sphere.
Why Women Can't Have it All: A lecture on the gender gap in ambition, discussing the ways in which women's choices about balancing life and work lead to broader inequalities.
Good Laws are Hard to Make: A lecture on spontaneous orders and how top-down laws create unintended consequences that frequently cascade into more government intervention.
Sterilization and the Ninth Amendment: A lecture discussing the eugenics movement in America, emphasizing the failure of the Supreme Court to protect individual rights against state intervention in reproductive decisions.
Other lectures on specific thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and other themes relating to classical liberalism or evolutionary theory and spontaneous orders are also available.
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