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February 25, 2025 • McDonough School of Business

Office Hours: Evaluating the True Impact of Seemingly Good Acts

Featuring Jason Brennan

by Maria Camila Gutierrez What does it truly mean to do good? Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor, explores the ethical complexities of doing good in Questioning […]

November 4, 2024 • McDonough School of Business

Business as a Force for Good: MBA Students Support Hurricane Helene Victims Through Ethics Project

Marshall Montgomery (MBA’25) has always been driven by a sense of purpose. That mindset is what led him to serve in the U.S. Army for seven years and later attracted […]

October 7, 2024 • Daily NOUS

New Editorial Team at Philosophy and Public Affairs

The new editor-in-chief of Philosophy & Public Affairs is Jason Brennan (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University).

March 11, 2024 • CBC

Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations

A selection from the article: Peter Jaworski, a Canadian scholar, is associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and an adjunct professor at Virginia School of Law. He said paid clinics could help Canada become […]

March 4, 2024 • Youtube

Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)

March 4, 2024 • Youtube

Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)

Jason Brennan discusses democracy on the Alex O'Connor Podcast,

July 6, 2023 • The Hill

On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right

By John Hasnas

By John Hasnas Is the Supreme Court’s ruling on SFFA v. Harvard a good decision? Well, yes and no. It’s a great decision with regard to the University of North Carolina and […]

June 22, 2023 • Niskanen Center

Jaworksi on CHQR: Commercial-compensated plasma collections

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Niskanen’s Peter Jaworski joined Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge on CHQR to discuss his recent article, “Paying for plasma: The case for commercial-compensated plasma collections.” Jaworski elaborates on how a commercial plasma […]

June 15, 2023 • Article

Liquid Gold: New Zealand’s need for compensated plasma collections

Featuring Peter Jaworski

The primary point of collecting blood plasma is to meet the medical and therapeutic needs of patients. We collect blood and plasma in order to ensure that we can preserve and promote […]

April 30, 2023 • Article

Is the effective altruism movement in trouble?

By Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò and Joshua Stein Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent alleged fraud raises familiar questions about the reliability and regulation of cryptocurrency. But it also calls into question “effective altruism”, […]

October 11, 2022 • Daily NOUS

Free Business Ethics Course Materials

By Justin Weinberg A team of scholars at Georgetown University have developed a set of open-access resources for teaching and learning business ethics. The package of materials, “Business Ethics in […]

September 13, 2022 • Reason Magazine

Defensive Gun Use Among Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians

By William English

By Eugene Volokh As I mentioned yesterday, there’s a new survey aimed at determining patterns of gun ownership and defensive gun use, from Prof. William English at the Georgetown University. […]

September 12, 2022 • American Institute for Economic Research

The Venture Capitalist Approach to Being an Academic

By Michael Douma

Traditional capitalist investors seek steady returns on investments with little risk of failure. Venture capitalists, however, invest in an array of risky but potentially high-return projects. Similarly, traditional academics seek […]

September 9, 2022 • Washington Examiner

Georgetown professor: AR-15 ‘commonly owned’ and ‘incredibly popular’

Featuring William English

By Paul Bedard In the national debate over banning AR-15-style rifles, there has been a noted lack of information other than anecdotal and heavily biased reports. On the gun ban […]

August 10, 2022 • The Globe and Mail

“Canadian Blood Services eyes getting plasma from paid donors amid supply challenges”

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Canadian Blood Services says it may for the first time work with private companies that pay people in Canada for their blood plasma.

August 1, 2022 • Le Point

“La plupart des personnes politisées se comportent comme des hooligans”

Le chercheur américain Jason Brennan livre une analyse pessimiste de la politique, dont nous devrions tous nous détourner autant que possible.

June 15, 2022 • Divided We Fall

The Impact of Voter Turnout on Polarization

By Jason Brennan

Will Increasing Turnout So Everyone Votes Reduce Polarization and Extreme Partisanship? Will Increasing Turnout So Everyone Votes Reduce Polarization and Extreme Partisanship? By Michael Neblo, Jason Brennan, and Whitney Quesenbery. Engaging Constituents is […]

May 15, 2022 • Finding Genius Podcast

Taboo Topics and Truth with Professor Jason Brennan

Featuring Jason Brennan

May 2, 2022 • E-International Relations

Interview with E-International Relations

Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field? Let’s talk specifically about democratic theory. Over on the normative side, that is, the side that is trying […]

April 8, 2022 • Audible

Audible Podcast: Jason Brennan on the Incentives in Criminal Justice

Featuring Jason Brennan

April 1, 2022 • Liberty Fund

The Great Antidote: Jason Brennan on Incentives and Criminal Justice

Podcast: Juliette Sellgren with Jason Brennan

February 16, 2022 • National Review

How Georgetown Is Stifling Speech on Campus

By John Hasnas

The university is implementing the academic analog of a SLAPP suit against Ilya Shapiro. How do you stifle unpopular speech at a place like Georgetown University whose policy states that […]

February 6, 2022 • Wall Street Journal

Why College’s Don’t Care About Free Speech

By John Hasnas

It’s incentives more than ideology, and there’s a simple fix.

February 1, 2022 • Reason Magazine

Against Champagne Socialists

By Jason Brennan

Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths By Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman It’s been a bad year in public […]

January 25, 2022 • American Institute for Economic Research

“What the Hell is Inflation Anyway?”

By Michael Douma

For most of the history of the term, inflation did not mean rising prices but rather rising prices were one of the consequences of inflation.

January 19, 2022 • 1517 Fund

Subversion with 1517

Featuring Jason Brennan

Jason Brennan on When You Can Violently Resist the Government

January 17, 2022 • McDonough School of Business

Office Hours: Jason Brennan on the Ethics of MLK Jr.’s Resistance to Injustice

By Jason Brennan

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.… We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” These […]

July 20, 2021 • Plasma is Life Podcast

Plasma is life

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Peter Jaworski talks about his interest in the plasma industry and the ethics of plasma donor compensation.

plasma is life podcast screenshot with peter jaworski

December 5, 2020 • New York Daily News

Affirmative action, fairness, and America’s future

By Thomas Mulligan

On Election Day, California voters decisively rejected Proposition 16, which would have repealed California’s constitutional ban on discrimination. This result has, understandably, been overshadowed by the presidential race. But it […]

October 1, 2020 • Reason Magazine

More Countries Should Pay Plasma Donors

By Peter Jaworski

Life-saving plasma therapies are essential for many patients, but every year we flirt with a shortage.