Double Effect and Human Rights in War The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower. Nigel Biggar 11 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat Are concerns about cultured meat justified? Matthew Adelstein 15 May 2024 · 9 min read
The Real Problem with Plagiarism Students who profess to care about justice but not about the truth will end up with neither. Ben Bayer 8 May 2024 · 8 min read
How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism. Matt Johnson 21 Dec 2023 · 29 min read
As a Hereditarian, I Strongly Support Economic Redistribution A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference. Gregory Clark 21 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. 23 Nov 2021 · 16 min read
Secular Morality Does Not Depend on Faith Here, then, we have a secular ethics connected not to 'nothing,' but to a preference for justice, fairness, and impartiality. Jerry A. Coyne 11 May 2019 · 3 min read
Is Hayek's Moral Vision Compatible with Democracy? As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism. David Peterson 10 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson: Heroes for Moral Realism? I see very little promise in grounding a moral realism (insofar as such a thing is ultimately a viable project) in terms of evolutionary fitness, and much more promise is taking Harris’ tack. John Klasios 28 Jan 2017 · 11 min read
What is a Racist? Why Moral Progress Hinges on Getting the Answer Right We are not arguing that racism has vanished, or that racists don’t exist. We’re making precisely the opposite argument. Jonathan Anomaly / Brian Boutwell 21 Nov 2016 · 5 min read
FBI Director Comey: Straight Shooter or Feckless Careerist? How About Neither FBI Director Comey's call not to charge Hillary Clinton aimed to avoid political turmoil in a charged climate. Deion Kathawa 16 Jul 2016 · 5 min read
Inaction is an Active Choice A large section of the critics of intervention today are making similar assumptions in both the moral and practical assessments of the choices before us. David Paxton 28 Nov 2015 · 6 min read
