Doug Husak's guest appearances

Doug Husak

IHS Academic

Bioethics

Brain in a Vat

Frederick Douglass

Mike Munger

Milton Mueller

Jason Brennan

Todd Zywicki

James Madison

Steve Horwitz

Phil Magness

Stephen King

Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Linsenmayer

Thaddeus Russell

Peter Boghossian

Mark Lance

Ryan Hanley

OwlTail

Who deserves to be punished? Should the State kill killers and rape rapists?  Should we abolish the police and the prison system?   Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/braininavat IMDB:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12490350/

Who deserves to be punished? Should the State kill killers and rape rapists?  Should we abolish the police and the prison system?   Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/braininavat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/braininavat</a> IMDB:  <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12490350/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12490350/</a>

Crime and Punishment With Doug Husak

Illicit drug use is thought to pose a public health problem for several possible reasons. Here I discuss one such reason: the supposed causal relation between illicit drug use (especially so-called "hard" illicit drugs) and violent crime.  The hypothesis that drugs are causally connected to crime is also a favorite basis on which to argue that drug use should be criminalized.  This hypothesis is difficult to test empirically.  I build on some resent criminological findings of Frank Zimring fron New York City to suggest that many theorists have tended to overstate the drugs-crime connection.  In New York City, violent crime has decreased greatly while "hard" illicit drug use has remained constant.  As Zimring concludes, it is possible to make enormous progress in the war on crime without making any headway in the war on drugs.  I examine the implications of these recent findings for debates about drug criminalization.

Bioethics Colloquim with Doug Husak

In this KosmosOnline Podcast Jeanne Hoffman talks with Professor Doug Husak about Drug Legalization and Libertarian Paternalism. Dr. Husak is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a Fellow at the Straus University at NYU.

In this KosmosOnline Podcast Jeanne Hoffman talks with Professor Doug Husak about Drug Legalization and Libertarian Paternalism. Dr. Husak is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a Fellow at the Straus University at NYU.

Doug Husak: Drug Legalization and Libertarian Paternalism