Ethics in Culture Alfred Archer and Benjamin Matheson | 24 May 2019 Should We Mute Michael Jackson? 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?
Ethics in Culture Zachary Batt | 15 Apr 2019 The Ethics of Telling All: What’s at Stake in Memoir Writing? In memoir writing, where's the line between tell-all and telling too much?
Pinterest's Block on Anti-Vaccination Content Pinterest quietly removed anti-vaccination content from the site, making both 'anti-vax' and 'vaccine' unsearchable. Was this the right thing to do? 4 Mar 2019 | Haley Thompson
Nasty, Brutish and Online: Is Facebook Revealing a Hobbesian Dystopia? Was Thomas Hobbes right about human nature, and is Facebook proving it? 11 Feb 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
Judd v Weinstein: Reexamining Ex Post Facto 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. 15 Jan 2019 | Kiara Goodwine
Should You Rate Your Professor? The Ethics of Student Evaluations Just how reliable are student evaluations of teachers at the end of the semester? Often, they reveal biases. 26 Dec 2018 | Kenneth Boyd
What PETA Gets Right about Animal Metaphors (and What it Gets Wrong) PETA's list of updated metaphors has sparked memes and ridicule. What did PETA do right - or wrong? 19 Dec 2018 | A.G. Holdier
Spotify and the Ethics of Music Streaming Spotify is convenient and inexpensive for listeners, but what compensation for the musicians who contribute to its catalog? 28 Nov 2018 | Andrew Bobker
Freedom to Gather: An Ethical Examination of the DePauw Student Handbook 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. 8 Oct 2018 | Sandra Laserna Cowal
"This Crazy Anxious World": Racism or Political Correctness? 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." 21 Sep 2018 | Desmonda Lawrence
Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide The genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar was greatly influenced by Facebook. 5 Sep 2018 | Amy Elyse Gordon
Insecticidal Tendencies: Insects as Candidates for Ecological Ethics Pesticides have done a lot of harm to our environment, but most of all to insects. Should our ethics extend beyond ourselves to members of the natural world? 28 Aug 2018 | Casey Ford
Reframing Picasso: Hannah Gadsby and "Separating the Man from the Art" Hannah Gadsby's reframing of Picasso's cubism is more than a piece of art criticism -- it's revolutionary. 2 Aug 2018 | Rachel Higson
The Ethics of Deterrence: Australian Offshore Immigration Detention The U.S. isn't the only country with controversial and dangerous immigration policies. Those of Australia have gone on for over 5 years. 10 Jul 2018 | Desmonda Lawrence
To Tip or Not to Tip: D.C.'s Ballot Initiative 77 In the nation's capitol, tip wage versus minimum wage was a point of contention, as Ballot Initiative 77 passed by a narrow margin. 2 Jul 2018 | Kiara Goodwine
Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border The Trump Administration has proposed a variety of excuses for its policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border. Do any of them actually hold up? 14 Jun 2018 | Jean Kazez
"Incels" and the Right to be Loved "Incels" argue they are entitled to love, and specifically, to sex. But do their claims really hold up? 4 Jun 2018 | Jean Kazez
Should the NFL's Players Have to Pay to Protest? The NFL's response to the #TakeAKnee demonstrations has revived the debate over patriotism and protest. 30 May 2018 | Rachel Robison-Greene
From Minstrel Shows to The Simpsons: Racism in American Comedy Comedy and satire cartoons are supposed to push boundaries, but all too often, they fall back on deeply ingrained racist imagery. 1 May 2018 | Kiara Goodwine
Searching for Authenticity, Finding Fallacy When we look for an "authentic" restaurant, what do we really mean? 25 Apr 2018 | Andrew Bobker
Who is Welcome at Starbucks? Two black men walked into a Philadelphia Starbucks to meet a friend. Moments later, the store manager called the police. 23 Apr 2018 | Jean Kazez
Does the Right to Self-Defense Give Us a Right to Guns? Does a right to self-defense guarantee access to firearms? 6 Apr 2018 | Jean Kazez
