The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat Are concerns about cultured meat justified? Matthew Adelstein 15 May 2024 · 9 min read
The Genocidal Imagination Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th. Pascal Bruckner 12 Dec 2023 · 21 min read
Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering. Michael Walzer 1 Dec 2023 · 10 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
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Moral Toddlers Making a Mess Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it. Robert Tracinski 30 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
The Universal Structure of Storytelling Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers. Jonathan Gottschall 29 Nov 2021 · 11 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
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven. Matthew Wardour 3 Feb 2021 · 7 min read
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s. Steven D. Hales 23 Nov 2019 · 10 min read
Religious Progressivism It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do. Colin Turfus 20 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
Is Secular Humanism a Religion? In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion. John Staddon 11 Apr 2019 · 6 min read
Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression. Stephen Harrod Buhner 22 Aug 2018 · 8 min read
The Case For Moral Doubt When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted. Scotty Jenkins 27 Nov 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
