Articles

Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement

• 2023      The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement (co-authored with Tess Johnson)
• 2022      Race, Eugenics, and the Holocaust. Bioethics and the Holocaust
• 2021       Can 'Eugenics' Be Defended? (with Veit, Singer, Agar, Fleischman & Minerva) 
• 2020      Great Minds Think Different. (with Chris Gyngell & Julian Savulescu)
• 2020      Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects. (with Garett Jones)
• 2018       Defending Eugenics: From cryptic choice to conscious selection. (part of a debate with Rob Wilson)

Public Goods and Public Policy 

• 2023     Can Liberalism Last? Demographic demise and the future of liberalism (with Filipe Faria)
• 2020     The Egalitarian Fallacy: Are group differences compatible with political liberalism? (with Bo Winegard)
• 2020     Dodging Darwin: Race, Evolution, and the Hereditarian Hypothesis (with Bo Winegard)
• 2015      Public Goods and Government Action. Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
• 2014      Social Norms, the Invisible Hand, and the Law (with Geoff Brennan)
• 2014      Public Goods and Procreation. Monash Bioethics Review

Public Health and Antibiotic Resistance

• 2023      What is Public Health? Public Choice (special issue on the political economy of pandemics)
• 2020      The Future of Phage: Ethical challenges of treating infections with phage viruses. Public Health Ethics
• 2020      Antibiotics and Animal Agriculture: The need for global collective action. Ethics and Drug Resistance 
• 2019       Compensation for Cures: Why we should pay for participation in challenge trials. Bioethics
• 2018       Ethics, Antibiotics, and Public Policy. Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
• 2015       What’s wrong with Factory Farming? Public Health Ethics

Book Reviews

• 2022     Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy. The Independent Review
• 2020     Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Science and Policy. The Independent Review
• 2018      Genetic Ethics, by Colin Farrelly. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• 2018      Pharmaceutical Freedom, by Jessica Flanigan. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• 2016      Markets without Limits, by Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• 2013      Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, by Michael Hauskeller. Notre Dame Phil Reviews

Essays and Interviews on Genetic Enhancement

• 2023    Sex and Civilization. A Series on genetics and reproductive technology for Psychology Today
• 2023    What is Informed Choice? Polygenic Risk & Reporoductive Autonomy. Am Soc for Reproductive Medicine
• 2022    Interview on the costs and benefits of embryo selection for polygenic traits. Orchid Health, San Francisco
• 2021     Enhancing Human Beings. Interview with Philosophy 24/7 at Oxford University
• 2020    Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity. Areo Magazine   

   For people who clutch their pearls when they hear "eugenics," here's how Leonard Darwin defined the term in 1923: 

  “Eugenics is the study of heredity as it may be applied to the betterment, mental and physical, of the human race”

 Charles Darwin, Leonard's dad, agreed with this description. So did Francis Galton, who coined the term 'eugenics'

  The idea of eugenics has been abused. But so have ideas like communism and capitalism, Christianity and Islam. 

      What matters is that the traits we care about are heritable, and our reproductive choices have social consequences.