Misinformation in the Age of Ebola
As the Ebola outbreak has progressed, public discourse of the matter has reached a fever pitch. From announcements that airports will screen for the...
‘Like a Girl:’ A cultural context
We have all heard it before: the kid out on the baseball field shouts, “you hit like a girl.” Adults do it too. In...
Kids for Ca$h Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Come out to Prindle on Tuesday, November 4 at 7 PM for a screening of the film Kids for Ca$h, a riveting, non-fiction thriller about a...
Education and a Free Society: A Libertarian Perspective (Part One)
If liberty is so fundamentally important to libertarians, then they should readily support means of achieving and maintaining it. Taking it as a given...
Humorous (but Serious) Critique of Student Loan Problem
Don't be fooled by the (sometimes) off-color nature of this examination of the student loan problem. Through the humor, Oliver identifies some serious moral...
Libertarian Paternalism: An Introduction
We’re now over a month into the new year – how are those resolutions coming? Even if you didn’t happen to make any for...
Politicizing a Tragedy, 30 Years after Bhopal
One would certainly hope that, as far as environmental regulation goes, we are better off than we were fifty years ago. We would hope...
Ebola: Deconstructing Racist Narratives
As the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues to make headlines in world news, and while health workers from across the world unite...
(How) Does Capitalism Incentivize? Part I
This post originally appeared June 9, 2015.
In my youth my parents would defend capitalism by saying that it incentivized work in contrast to communism....
Piper Kerman to Visit Campus for Ubben Lecture
The Prindle Institute is excited to welcome Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black, to campus in February as part of the...