Granted, it's easy to go overboard, and some of the restrictions in this vein--like waiting periods--can be overly burdensome, depending on the specifics. But simply requiring women be offered the ...

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 ...

If you’ve had the fortune to take 20th-century Japanese history with professor Sheldon Garon, however, the word “paternalism” takes another shade of meaning. At its best, paternalism involves an ...

Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who advocates "libertarian paternalism" in his book Nudge (co-authored by University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler), worries about the consequences of ...

Part of the aim of these essays is to engage with topics that may be challenging, reflecting the importance of having difficult conversations that advance progress. If we find that nothing we say ...

In these political times, populism is creeping towards paternalism, and the Italian “Third Republic’s” new basic income scheme is the latest example. Nevertheless, it’s not through the benevolence of ...

In an op-ed in The New York Times titled "Three Cheers for the Nanny State," Sarah Conly, a philosophy professor at Bowdown College and author of Against Autonomy, dismisses principled concerns about ...

Brink Lindsay has a piece on why he opposes a universal basic income that has gotten a lot of attention. His argument draws on paternalism and behavioral economics style arguments about how welfare ...

The National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), Niger’s ruling military government, announced an immediate suspension to its security cooperation with the United States on March 16, ...

There are many arguments against government paternalism: apart from limiting individual choice (for example, the choice to remain uninsured in the current health care debate in the U.S.) and ...

Political paternalism – the belief that those in government possess more knowledge, wisdom, and ability to plan, guide, and direct various aspects of people’s lives better than those people themselves ...