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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.

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?

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.

How should we understand the relation between law and morality? And what might this answer mean for human rights?

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.

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.

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.

What obligations do those in the entertainment industry have to the public in the wake of criminal allegations? Is censorship ever appropriate prior to legal conviction? Must public use be a political act?

In memoir writing, where's the line between tell-all and telling too much?

Pinterest quietly removed anti-vaccination content from the site, making both 'anti-vax' and 'vaccine' unsearchable. Was this the right thing to do?

Was Thomas Hobbes right about human nature, and is Facebook proving it?

Ex post facto laws allow us to avoid retroactive legislation. But in the era after #MeToo, maybe there are some crimes that should be punished after the fact.

Just how reliable are student evaluations of teachers at the end of the semester? Often, they reveal biases.

PETA's list of updated metaphors has sparked memes and ridicule. What did PETA do right - or wrong?

Spotify is convenient and inexpensive for listeners, but what compensation for the musicians who contribute to its catalog?

Students of color on DePauw's campus lack some of the ability to congregate as students in historically white fraternities just because of where they live.

The Australian cartoon depicting Serena Williams at the US Open Tennis Tournament has stirred up a world of vitriol - both for and against "political correctness."

The genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar was greatly influenced by Facebook.