This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup opens with a close reading of a recent Wall Street Journal essay on vice and prohibition. The discussion focuses on how the piece frames social harm, regulation, and individual choice, and what tends to fall out of view when vice is treated primarily as a matter of moral decline rather than institutional design.
The roundup also includes a new Taboo Trades podcast episode, “Taboo Patents,” with Andrew Gilden and Sarah Rajec, examining how patent law structures the way morally contested technologies are described at an early stage. Rounding things out are notes from recent law & economics workshops discussing legal and economic questions involving blood and organs.
Read the full roundup here: