Ronald W. Dworkin

Ronald W. Dworkin is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, at the University of Virginia. He is the author of four books and numerous magazine essays.

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A Very American Madness

America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.

Ronald W. Dworkin

12 Dec 2024 · 17 min read

Selling Happiness Through Illusions

The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.

Ronald W. Dworkin

30 Aug 2024 · 15 min read

The Radical Humanitarian Doctrine

Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.

Ronald W. Dworkin

14 Nov 2023 · 10 min read

Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith

In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.

Ronald W. Dworkin

17 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

The New Prohibition

The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life.

Ronald W. Dworkin

25 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction

Putting a patient under general anesthesia is a dangerous business. Waking a patient up from anesthesia is an ugly one. After I turn off the gas the patient typically thrashes and writhes like a sinner in Hell. Yet such resistance has never bothered me. I don’t want good and

Ronald W. Dworkin

17 Mar 2022 · 9 min read