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- Our main problem in health policy is overemphasis on medicine (2007) https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medicine-half/ 76 comments
- Peter Thiel: The education of a libertarian (2009) https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian 49 comments
- Why Online Education Works (2012) https://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/11/12/alex-tabarrok/why-online-education-works 8 comments
- The End of Asymmetric Information http://www.cato-unbound.org/2015/04/06/alex-tabarrok-tyler-cowen/end-asymmetric-information 19 comments
- The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/04/matt-zwolinski/pragmatic-libertarian-case-basic-income-guarantee 81 comments
- Eliezer Yudkowsky: Is That Your True Rejection? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/09/07/eliezer-yudkowsky/is-that-your-true-rejection/ 106 comments
- Peter Thiel - The Education of a Libertarian http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-education-of-a-libertarian/ 9 comments
- Health Care Doesn't Affect Health (on the margin) http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medicine-in-half/ 30 comments
- Clay Shirky: Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/07/13/clay-shirky/not-an-upgrade-an-upheaval/ 2 comments
- What Larry Lessig Didn't Get http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/04/declan-mccullagh/what-larry-didnt-get/ 20 comments
- Peter Thiel on the future of Libertarianism, politics, and technology http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-education-of-a-libertarian/ 53 comments
- Peter Thiel: The Education of a Libertarian http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-education-of-a-libertarian/ 4 comments
- The Ineffectiveness of Food and Soft Drink Taxes https://www.cato-unbound.org/2015/01/12/christopher-snowdon/ineffectiveness-food-soft-drink-taxes/ 2 comments goldandblack
- The Conscience of a Human: “The most abject cruelty, cruelty that would horrify us if perpetrated against any other human being, scarcely troubles us when it is done to members of another species” https://www.cato-unbound.org/2020/02/10/michael-huemer/conscience-human-being 72 comments philosophy
- Does the Constitution Give the Federal Government Power Over Immigration? https://www.cato-unbound.org/2018/09/12/ilya-somin/does-constitution-give-federal-government-power-over-immigration 8 comments law
- Becoming Transhuman: The Complicated Future of Robot and Advanced Sapient Rights https://www.cato-unbound.org/2018/04/13/zoltan-istvan/becoming-transhuman-complicated-future-robot-advanced-sapient-rights 4 comments philosophy
- The False Promise of Instant Runoff Voting https://www.cato-unbound.org/2016/12/09/jason-sorens/false-promise-instant-runoff-voting 8 comments politics
- Approval Voting: Works Great, Less Complicated https://www.cato-unbound.org/2016/12/07/thomas-l-knapp/approval-voting-works-great-less-complicated 8 comments politics
- The Basic Income Guarantee: Simplicity, but at What Cost? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/26/basic-income-guarantee-simplicity-what-cost 11 comments politics
- Why Substantive Due Process Makes Sense http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/02/06/timothy-sandefur/why-substantive-due-process-makes-sense/ 4 comments law
- Ending Cannabis Prohibition in America - The now 40-year-old organized effort to reform cannabis laws in America is on the cusp of major socio-political change. Approximately fifty percent of the population no longer supports the nation’s 74-year-old cannabis Prohibition. http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/11/11/allen-st-pierre/ending-cannabis-prohibition-in-america/ 27 comments politics
- 'The drug war’s most serious collateral damage has been to undermine the role of civilian law enforcement in our free society.' - A tiny family home is raided by SWAT team executing an 8-day-old search warrant, and the only things seized were a pipe containing a small amount of marijuana residue http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/11/09/norm-stamper/losing-hearts-and-minds-in-the-drug-war/ 7 comments politics
- Cannabis’ Impact on Health Justifies Its Legalization, Not Its Criminal Prohibition http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/11/07/paul-armentano/cannabis-impact-on-health-justifies-its-legalization-not-its-criminal-prohibition/ 184 comments politics
- At the core of neoconservatism is a fundamental dualism that combines what Strauss called "the way of Socrates with the way of Thrasymachus." http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/03/07/c-bradley-thompson/neoconservatism-unmasked/ 33 comments philosophy
- Flynn, Ceci, and Turkheimer on Race and Intelligence http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/26/linda-s-gottfredson/flynn-ceci-and-turkheimer-on-race-and-intelligence-opening-moves/ 9 comments cogsci
- A nation of jailers http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/ 3 comments politics
- Why are we fighting a war on terrorism that's costing trillions, when you're more likely to die from lightning than from terroristic attacks? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/09/11/john-mueller/are-we-safer/ 13 comments politics
- "If the BA Is the Work of the Devil, It’s Not His Best Work" http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/10/08/pedro-carneiro/if-the-ba-is-the-work-of-the-devil-its-not-his-best-work/ 4 comments philosophy
- Down with the Four-Year College Degree! http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/10/06/charles-murray/down-with-the-four-year-college-degree/ 16 comments philosophy
- Towards a Culture of Responsible Drug Use | Everyone uses them. Would you believe that nearly 90% of 45-year-olds in the United States have tried an illegal drug in their lifetime? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/09/08/earth-and-fire-erowid/towards-a-culture-of-responsible-drug-use/ 3 comments politics
- Swedish Pirate Bureau founder's essay: New copyright law tends to be less concerned about infringement and more about criminalizing entire technologies http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/ 6 comments technology
- We All Own Stolen Goods — and How Defending Property Rights Can Help the World’s Most Oppressed People http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/12/leif-wenar/we-all-own-stolen-goods/ 3 comments politics
- Do We Need Death? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/12/07/ronald-bailey/do-we-need-death/ 4 comments reddit.com
- The Brain Is Like a Muscle, and We Train to Raise our IQs http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/05/james-r-flynn/shattering-intelligence-implications-for-education-and-interventions/ 3 comments science
- An-ARRRGH-chy! What Pirates (and Somalia) Tell Us about Real-World Anarchy http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/08/06/peter-t-leeson/anarchy-unbound-or-why-self-governance-works-better-than-you-think/ 2 comments reddit.com
- If Democracy is So Great, Why are Voters So Dumb? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/11/06/bryan-caplan/the-myth-of-the-rational-voter/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Governing Well Is the Best Revenge: Why Libertarians Should Vote Democrat http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/04/bruce-reed/governing-well-is-the-best-revenge/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Kos at Cato!? "The Case for the Libertarian Democrat" http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Terrorists Are No More Dangerous Than Stray Asteroids http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/09/11/john-mueller/are-we-safer/ 13 comments reddit.com
- Why Doesn’t Aid Work? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/04/03/william-easterly/why-doesnt-aid-work/ 4 comments reddit.com