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 ...

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 ...

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. Over the ...

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 ...

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 ...