Sublime

Sam saw some merits in a certain kind of libertarianism. But he listened to actual libertarians argue why, for instance, they shouldn’t need to pay taxes. And he thought, Yeah, of course no one likes to pay taxes, but that’s not exactly a philosophy. “They blurred the line between libertarianism as a philosophy and selfishness as a philosophy,” he

Professor William Hsiao, the Harvard economist, has helped design health care systems for more than a dozen nations. He says the creation of a national health care system involves political, economic, and medical decisions, but the primary decision to be made is a moral one.

what they say about contemporary culture, what they can actually do for audiences, and what they can offer contemporary social relations.

One other oddly big thing happened to Sam at the beginning of his junior year. Completely out of the blue, a twenty-five-year-old lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University named Will Crouch* reached out and asked to meet with him. Sam never learned how the guy had found him—probably from the writing Sam had been doing on various utilitarian messa

But some Americans have been pressing their countrymen to deal with that “first question” as a foundation for building a new national health care system. Professor Uwe Reinhardt, the economist at Princeton University and global leader in the field of health care economics, argues that U.S. policy makers have deliberately avoided the moral question.