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Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson, Vice President for Policy at the Niskanen Center, teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.

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Paul Bloom says that standard theories of luxury consumption are wrong because they fail to account for the way beliefs about an object’s history can infuse it with a sort of talismanic...
Will Wilkinson
Scanlon argues that none of three lines of thought “show that respect for the value of individual liberty should lead one to support the political program of low taxes and limited government...
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Modern liberals embrace an ideal of democracy that requires relative equality of political voice. To advance that ideal, they demand government regulation of political speech. And they are troubled that our Constitution...
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