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…
This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup engages three distinct items that surface recurring anxieties about morally charged exchanges. The post opens with a critical response to a recent guest essay…
This week’s roundup spans symbolic honors, moral limits of markets, and biomedical supply chains. It opens with the Nobel Committee’s statement reaffirming the inalienability of the Nobel Prize after Trump-related…
The latest Taboo & Repugnant Roundup includes three items that span organ transplantation, end-of-life law, and the classroom. First is further discussion of the New York Times profile of the…
This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup covers three developments at the intersection of law, health policy, and institutional design. The post begins with the Trump executive order directing DOJ and…
This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup brings together three developments that illuminate how law engages morally contested markets. First, Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention (Taylor &…
This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup spans human challenge trials, egg donation markets in the United States and Spain, sperm donor genetics, and kidney transplantation. At first glance, these stories…
The latest Substack connects three domains where law, norms, and market design intersect: • The organ-donation paradox, where ex-post gifts are celebrated while ex-ante payment remains illegal. • Feeding America’s…
New Substack: Taboo & Repugnant Roundup This issue examines several consequential developments in reproductive and higher-education policy: • The rising use of elective IVF and PGT, and the shaky foundations…
This week’s roundup brings together multiple strands of interest to scholars working on courts, health policy, bioethics, and market governance. The discussion of private judges highlights a notable shift in…