Lee Clarke argues that we need a more inclusive view of moral personhood. On 21st April 2022, the then Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison answered the question of a lady with an autistic son ...

Abortion remains one of the most difficult ethical questions for me. It touches the core of human experience and life itself. The issue is rarely addressed beyond the surface of legality and medical ...

Peter Edge, RCA’s Los Angeles-based CEO, on building careers in an age of shortened attention spans, why “premium” artists are winning in a crowded ...

Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, even if the sheer volume of ideas in the book made it a challenging read ...

Jeffrey Miron and Vanessa Brown Calder remind us of the complexity of the abortion debate and offer a nuanced approach to addressing the moral issues at stake.

The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong invoked Marx; and Adolf Hitler invoked Nietzsche.

Compelled to tell her grandmother’s true story, the academic realised she’d have to confront the records of the old state security and secret police force ...

A day after human remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla impounded at a Hollywood tow yard, police confirmed the discovery of another set of remains at a different tow yard. Detectives responded ...

Avellana Art Gallery presents two compelling exhibitions from Jonathan Castro and Arden Mopera, beckoning the public to join them in the ruminative realm of self-contemplation and realizations through ...

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...

Most morally objectionable actions are so because they harm others. Stealing, lying, breaking agreements, causing physical harm, etc, without some overriding reasons, are immoral. Yet most jobs ...