Defending Your PhD Dissertation is a practical survival guide for doctoral candidates facing the high-stakes hostile reading of their dissertation defense. Dr. John M. Cobin walks readers through anticipating adversarial committee questions, structuring persuasive rebuttals, managing pressure in the room, and protecting years of research from being derailed by a single contentious exchange. Written for graduate students in any discipline, this guide covers pre-defense preparation, reading-...

Can human life and human liberty both be defended? In this fully revised fourth edition, Dr. John M. Cobin argues that they must be - and shows how. Starting from the personhood of the unborn child, he builds a pro-life argument grounded in the libertarian non-aggression principle and the Christian tradition of natural rights, reinforced by the economics of market failure. Written for a post-Roe world, it addresses the Dobbs decision (2022) and answers objections raised from within the lib...