Students seeking entry to one of Britain's most prestigious secondary schools were asked a morally difficult question.
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The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are not only defensible, but actively good. The critics who ignore...
To dismantle the primary school system is not desirable, but it is necessary. What we have now...
Moral certainty is just as bad as intellectual certainty.
A day late and a dollar short with two stories of the rake's progress.
The philosophical questions of morality in warfare are as old as recorded human history. With the rise...
Murder: what if there were an app for that?
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
League Alum Jamelle Bouie asked: "On a D&D alignment chart, where would you put The Punisher?"
When headline writers use questions, Burt Likko answers them. Briefly, completely, and unabashedly expressing his own opinion....
I've never done this before -- promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got...
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be "justice," vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit...
“To have intercourse without intending children is to violate nature, which we must take as our teacher.” ...
I normally try to stay away from taking pot shots at David Brooks columns, but today’s raises a...
From today’s Boston Herald (via memeorandum): The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from...
[Belated Preface-12/29/2012-: My original intention with sharing the below experience was to set a rather basic philosophic...
Decadence: “moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury”—Oxford English Dictionary Online. ...
Eban Alexander has journeyed to heaven and returned to tell the tale. In addition to writing an...
Decades after the sexual revolution, many religious conservatives remain fiercely committed to preaching, if not always living,...
