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By Nathaniel Counts Politics, theoretically at least, is a process designed to enhance the sense of wellbeing of its citizens. The success of this process, the amount of wellbeing that can be created, is hamstrung…
By Nathaniel Counts High school health classes that are effective in preventing high-risk behaviors employ two educational models: the social influences model and the life skills model. The social influences model teaches children about social…
By Nathaniel Counts In our legal system, colleges may not make admissions decisions in order to ameliorate historical (or presumably other) inequalities, but may make decisions that take into account the particular situation of the…
By Nathaniel Counts We live in a time when increasingly our personal information is publicly available on the internet. This personal information includes our names and phone numbers, things we’ve written and things we’ve done,…
By Nathaniel Counts In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill asserted that “[t]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…
By Nathaniel Counts If, out of concern for public health, the government banned potato chips today, a lot of people would get very angry. Only some of these people would be angry because they missed…
By Nathaniel Counts During the government shutdown in October 2013, a battle in part over the future of healthcare reform, a non-negligible amount of media attention focused on the shutdown of public parks. Perhaps because…
By Nathaniel Counts Managed care and integration of primary care and mental health services are major foci of the Affordable Care Act, especially as more practices are encouraged to become Patient-Centered Medical Homes. In managed…
By Nathaniel Counts Health insurers are beginning to realize the importance of downstream cost-saving. By paying to keep people healthy now, health insurers avoid major expenditures later when they must cover chronic conditions and hospitalizations. …
By Nathaniel Counts Human rights disaggregates otherwise related issues into separate rights. We discuss rights to health, education, housing, association, etc., and, in countries where these rights are codified, we litigate each one separately in…
