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Featured Prindle News Hound | 31 Dec 2020 Year in Review To ring in the new year, our writers offer their favorite reads that you might have missed.
Should At-Home Workers Be Taxed? If at-home workers must chip in more money to the pot as a matter of fairness, surely there are others who might be similarly obligated. 17 Nov 2020 | Andrew Cullison
Misericordia and Trump’s Illness Can virtue ethics ever justify wishing harm to come to others? 5 Oct 2020 | John Hacker-Wright
Moral Luck and the Judgment of Officials What responsibility do judges bear in assessing individual's moral culpability for outcomes that are the product of luck? 14 Sep 2020 | James M. Okapal
Back to School: America’s Uncontrolled and Unethical Experiment Public officials have described the return to classrooms as an "experiment," but this description fails to appreciate the guidelines for studying protected populations. 3 Aug 2020 | Ted Bitner
Individualism in the Time of COVID: The Rights and Wrongs of Face Masks Whose rights are at stake when businesses require patrons to don face masks? How should we define the boundaries of our individual freedom? 14 Jul 2020 | John Hacker-Wright
Is Biden Trapped by Identity Politics? Is identity politics threatening to further fracture our fragile bonds or is it the path to reconciliation? 8 Jul 2020 | Roman Altshuler
Retweets, Endorsements, and Indirect Speech Acts How should we understand the speech act of retweeting? What are we signaling and what are we not? When, if ever, might condemnation be appropriate? 3 Jul 2020 | Josh Habgood-Coote
Black Lives Matter: Australia As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the world, Australia must also confront the very present racism of how Indigenous people are treated by police. 9 Jun 2020 | Desmonda Lawrence
Expertise in the Time of COVID What can we do when we are in no position to judge? 10 Apr 2020 | Jamie Watson
"Chinese Virus"? On the Ethics of Coronavirus Nicknames The WHO has moved away from including origin in the naming convention for diseases, and they've done so for good reasons. 24 Mar 2020 | Youha Kim
Institutions' Right to Block: ICAO vs. Taiwan What might justify an organization or government's wielding of exclusionary power? What does it mean to be removed from the conversation? 3 Feb 2020 | Shen-Yi Liao
Collective Action and Climate Change: Consumption, Defection, and Motivation Should climate change policies aim at justice or fairness? 9 Jan 2020 | Meredith McFadden
Year in Review Our writers offer recommendations of the best reads you might have missed. 1 Jan 2020 | Prindle News Hound
Impeachment as a Means to an End The value of the impeachment hearings extends well beyond the immediate political horizon. It is not a tool in service of a particular end, but a communicative symbol to the world. 2 Dec 2019 | Roman Altshuler
Some Ethical Problems with Footnotes What might be the moral implications of our notation choices in academic research? Could the ongoing debate over footnotes or endnotes be a moral debate? 15 Nov 2019 | A.G. Holdier
The Ethics of Homeschooling The vast difference in states' standards for homeschooling raises troubling questions about children's growth and their prospects of ever developing real autonomy. It also casts doubt on the legitimacy of home-based learning. 23 Oct 2019 | Smriti Karki
Natural Law Theory and Human Rights Advocacy How should we understand the relation between law and morality? And what might this answer mean for human rights? 23 Sep 2019 | Evan Butts
Disagreements in Ethical Reasoning: Opinion and Inquiry Disagreement about our moral duties and obligations is inevitable. But this does not show that morality is a matter of opinion or that ethics is subjective. 9 Sep 2019 | Matthew S.W. Silk
The Free-Speech Defense and a Defense of Free Speech Mill endorsed free and open debate as a machine capable of refining and reinforcing truth. There were, however, limits. On his view, political correctness is not a restriction of free speech but a basic tenet. 13 Aug 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
Do Women’s Soccer Players Deserve Equal Pay for Equal Play? In assessing the different sides of the debate there are a number of relevant factors at play from relative commercial value to social message and even historical injustice. 3 Jul 2019 | Alfred Archer