Policy and Applied Ethics
Questions of public policy, including issues where ethics is applied such as abortion and euthanasia
Euthanasia: its varieties and its justification
Where to intervene in health care markets, and to what end
Reasons for society to help the ill, at least in some cases, and the best ways states can do so. Includes a consideration of the 'ObamaCare' model.
The success of education reform in the UK
New evidence now unambiguously confirms that academies have transformed education, not simply through selection and to the benefit rather than detriment of neighbouring schools
Million-Dollar Murray: why homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
The costs and problems of homelessness follow a "power law" distribution rather than a bell curve - a handful of homeless people cost millions in band aids, and these millions could be better spent curing rather than managing them
Why some government debt is not a bad thing
When economic growth makes tax receipts increase faster than cumulative interest increases government debt, the government can simply let the debt accumulate (borrowing from new creditors whenever old ones call in their debt). In time it will then reach a level at which it could be paid off with a much smaller fraction of annual tax receipts.
How Much Direct Suffering Is Caused by Various Animal Foods?
Contains a chart factoring the intensity and length of different farm animals' suffering (as well as their weight). Based on guesstimates, but the only attempt at a quantitative guide I could find.
A critique of moral vegetarianism
Criticisms of vegetarianism - a response can be found at http://keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com/blog/moral-vegetarianism/
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
A Reason debate
