Moral Philosophy - Quillette

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 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