Bill Glod

Biography

Bill Glod has devoted his career to defending individual liberty and building scholarly networks. Alongside respected philosophy journals, his work criticizing paternalism in government was published in his 2020 Routledge book Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices. As program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies from 2009 to 2023, he oversaw faculty mentorship programming, organized scholarly events, and managed a fellowship with a one-​million-​dollar annual budget. Bill currently works as a freelance author, contributing essays to outlets like the Online Library of Liberty and Liberal Currents.

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Glod, Bill - Why Libertarians Should Take Paternalism Seriously
Bill Glod
Why Libertarians Should Take Paternalism Seriously

Recent defenders of state paternalism argue that traditional objections fail to identify anything distinctively problematic about it that don’t also pertain to other state activities these objectors would find acceptable. Bill Glod outlines these observations.

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“Libertarian” Paternalism?
Bill Glod, Aaron Ross Powell, and Trevor Burrus
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The Nature of Rights
Bill Glod