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"The FDA's Mango-Flavored Trolley Problem" - Doctors Without Boredom

Don’t you just love that headline? These competing concerns leave the FDA trying to thread a particularly tricky needle: How do they get these products into the hands of the people who need them, while keeping them away from people […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics

oikonomia and economics - Doctors Without Boredom

I don’t wholly agree with everything that Oren Cass has to say here, but he has some very important observations and proposals in this essay about work, family, and political economy: Alongside stable political institutions that protect basic freedoms, family […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics

oikonomia and economics - Doctors Without Boredom

I don’t wholly agree with everything that Oren Cass has to say here, but he has some very important observations and proposals in this essay about work, family, and political economy: Alongside stable political institutions that protect basic freedoms, family […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the faith and work movement... for workers! - Doctors Without Boredom

The Faith and Work movement set out to do something worthwhile: encouraging people to think of their work as a vocation honoring to God. Unfortunately, it has really focused on the vocations of the creative class and other upper-middle-class professionals […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the faith and work movement... for workers! - Doctors Without Boredom

The Faith and Work movement set out to do something worthwhile: encouraging people to think of their work as a vocation honoring to God. Unfortunately, it has really focused on the vocations of the creative class and other upper-middle-class professionals […]

Matthew LoftusEconomics

the wonderful world of zoning reform - Doctors Without Boredom

Zoning reform, while decidedly unsexy, is probably one of the more important issues in America when it comes to reducing poverty. Housing is expensive and there’s no way to subsidize enough for everyone — we have to break down the […]

Matthew LoftusEconomics

the wonderful world of zoning reform - Doctors Without Boredom

Zoning reform, while decidedly unsexy, is probably one of the more important issues in America when it comes to reducing poverty. Housing is expensive and there’s no way to subsidize enough for everyone — we have to break down the […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEconomics

the desperate need for global integrity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians should be people of integrity — the world is watching us as we image Christ, and if we are not living with integrity, we shame Him. Sadly, failures of integrity happen far more often than we would like, with […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEconomics

the desperate need for global integrity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians should be people of integrity — the world is watching us as we image Christ, and if we are not living with integrity, we shame Him. Sadly, failures of integrity happen far more often than we would like, with […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

immigration and identity - Doctors Without Boredom

There are so many things to think about from this piece by Luma Simms in National Affairs: Throughout history, people have traveled from country to country, trading with one another over long distances, returning home with the goods, habits, and even […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

immigration and identity - Doctors Without Boredom

There are so many things to think about from this piece by Luma Simms in National Affairs: Throughout history, people have traveled from country to country, trading with one another over long distances, returning home with the goods, habits, and even […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsHealth & Medicine

"Nothing can take form except within limits." - Doctors Without Boredom

Wendell Berry summarizes many of our contemporary problems quite well in this excellent interview with Gracy Olmstead: Those problems could be summed up as the triumph of industrialism and industrial values over the lives of living creatures, and over the […]