Notes and Essays on Issues
Some thoughts I've bothered to jot down over the years:
The Social Security Debate
Summarizes Social Security debate in outline formOutline: Arguments Justifying Racial Preference-Based Affirmative Action
Summarizes arguments for / against race-based affirmative actionA Thought on Affirmative Action
Thoughts on affirmative action and racismNecessary Conditions for Justifying Church-State Separation under Utilitarian Theory
About addressing problems such as, "If Catholicism holds true, why wouldn't I want to be born in Inquisition-era Spain?" using utilitarian theory; also, whether or not John Rawls has an answer to this problemFreedom
An essay contest winner I delivered as a speech to the local chapter of the VFW when I was a 15-year-old; my ideas were much younger at the time, but I do hold to much of what I saidDoes Money Teach Kids the Wrong Things?
My letter to The Wall Street Journal on monetary incentives in raising childrenEmpiricist Objections to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
Whether or not John Rawls' circumstances of justice hold in all cases"True" Communism?
Regarding an unsuccessful cop-out from historical analysis of communism's performanceAssessing Some Arguments Against Vouchers
Extremely brief argument around school choice"The Truth Lies Somewhere in the Middle": Does It?
Regarding moderationMy letter to the editor regarding pacifism
To the Purdue student newspaper, following September 11thLa mano de obra barata y la economía latinoamericana (Spanish)
Sobre los problemas de los salarios peores de los obreros latinoamericanos
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