LECTURESÂ & DEBATES
Below are links to video recordings of selected public lectures, panel discussions, and public debates I have given.
Brownstone Institute Annual Conference
November 1, 2024
A conversation with Mattias Desmet and Jeffrey Tucker
Mises Institute
August 19, 2023
On the threat of the melding of state and corporate power in public health.
Henkel Conference, Nashville
August 8, 2023
On the melding of digital technologies of surveillance and control with top-down public health authoritarianism.
Unity Project Wine Country Conversations
May 11, 2023
My conversation with former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill on fighting censorship.
California Senate
June 27, 2022
My testimony before the California Senate Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development
United States Senate
January 25, 2022
My contributions to a panel sponsored by Senator Ron Johnson.
Fieldstead and Company
August 23, 2021
A salon lecture on gene editing, human cloning, three-parent embryos, and human-animal chimeras
New York Encounter 2021​
February 14, 2021
A discussion on the epidemic of suicide and mental health issues in the time of Covid, with Jeremy McLellan (comedian), Mary Townsend (St. John’s University), moderated by Margarita Mooney (Princeton).
Johns Hopkins University Nanjing Center
Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy
February 20, 2021
Panel discussion with Adrian Pabst (U. of Kent), Adam Webb (Johns Hopkins), D.C. Schindler (Catholic U), moderated by Paul Grenier and Susannah Black (Simone Weil Center).
University of Notre Dame
DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture Winter Conference
January 2021
Panel discussion on medicine and public health with Kristin Collier (U. Michigan), Lauris Kaldjian (U. Iowa), moderated by William Hurlbut (Stanford).
Fieldstead and Company
18 December 2020
On the rising rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions, and suicides during lockdowns.
UCI School of Medicine
White Coat Ceremony
August 3, 2018
Keynote address, White Coat Ceremony for incoming medical students and their families
Napa Institute Conference
August 2020
This talk unpacks the origins of the crisis that played out on our city streets during the Summer of 2020. It explores why today’s misbegotten revolutionary ideologies produce only nihilism, and explains why the normalization of violence has become one of the most characteristic features of our time.
Napa Institute Conference
August 2020
Rates of depression, anxiety, stress, substance abuse, and suicide have been on the rise during the coronavirus stay-at-home orders. This talk describes these concerning trends, and provides concrete practical suggestions to reduce the risk of these outcomes and improve our mental health during these challenging times.
University of California Irvine
September 12, 2015
A public debate between Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UCI School of Law, and Aaron Kheriaty, physician and medical ethicist with the UCI School of Medicine, moderated by Douglas Haynes, Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative at UCI.