War Giles Howdle | 31 Mar 2022 Nuclear War and Scope Neglect Cognitive biases make it easy to lose sight of our goal in risk assessment.
World Affairs Marshall Bierson | 24 Mar 2022 Considered Position: Thinking Through Sanctions – Our Own Obligations What responsibilities might individuals have to support these punitive economic measures?
Considered Position: Thinking Through Sanctions – The Ethics of Targeting Civilians Can the consequences suffered by innocent bystanders be deemed unintended and thus permissible? 23 Mar 2022 | Marshall Bierson
Considered Position: Thinking Through Sanctions – Do Sanctions Work? Assessing the effectiveness of sanctions requires forward-looking metrics. They operate as a deterrent; more for show than for use. 22 Mar 2022 | Marshall Bierson
Can Assassination Ever Be the Right Thing to Do? Why should military action aimed at our enemies' top brass be a stratagem that remains off the table? 18 Mar 2022 | Evan Arnet
The Nuclear Dice How should we evaluate alternative strategies of engagement when the levels of uncertainty and risk remain so high? 14 Mar 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Hypocrisy and Credibility in U.S. Foreign Policy A history of intervention in pro-Soviet regimes in the West undermines the US's claim to the moral high ground. 2 Mar 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Ukraine, Digital Sanctions, and Double Effect: A Response Should Big Tech intervene even if their actions threaten foreseeable harm to innocent bystanders? 1 Mar 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
Russia, Ukraine, and Digital Sanctions Does Big Tech have a responsibility to get involved? 28 Feb 2022 | Kenneth Boyd
Taking Pleasure at the Ultimate Self-Own? Perhaps our inclination toward this "harmless" bit of fun should inspire self-reflection. 15 Feb 2022 | Cargile Williams
The Heartless Matter of Organ Transplantation and COVID Vaccination What considerations belong in our discussions about distributing such a scarce and valuable resource? 2 Feb 2022 | Richard Gibson
Why Vaccinating the World Is the Best Thing for Australia Global vaccine equity not only serves the least well-off, it also happens to be what's in all of our interests. 3 Dec 2021 | D'Arcy Blaxell
On Booster Shot Boycotts and Participatory Democracy Are boycotts merely a matter of individual conscience, or might they depend on a shared political context to be recognized for what they are? 2 Dec 2021 | A.G. Holdier
Should Clinicians Have Soapboxes? Does the unique position of medical professionals make them the best commentators or the worst? 30 Nov 2021 | Richard Gibson
Fair Shares and COVID-19 Booster Shots What blame do we bear for enjoying the ill-gotten gains secured by our government? 22 Nov 2021 | Daniel Burkett
On the Appropriateness of Shame How can we even begin to chart the contours of such a nebulous thing? 18 Nov 2021 | Jake Wojtowicz
The Poland-Belarus Border Crisis: The Ethics of Blackmail Is the principled refusal to come to the negotiating table with terrorists a morally justified stance? 15 Nov 2021 | Giles Howdle
Aaron Rodgers, “Critical Thinking,” and Intellectual Humility How do we distinguish between healthy epistemic habits and virtues and those which are unhealthy? 11 Nov 2021 | Kenneth Boyd
Individual Rights, Collective Interests, and Vaccine Mandates Is there any justifying the state's strong-arming and bullying in the name of its citizens' public health? 21 Oct 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Russia and the Energy Crisis On what grounds could we possibly object to the geopolitical opportunism that represents business as usual? 18 Oct 2021 | Richard Gibson
Vaccine Hesitancy as Free-Riding A not insignificant portion of the unvaccinated continue to confound us in their refusal to acknowledge the basic demands of fairness. 8 Oct 2021 | Daniel Burkett
Moral Lessons from the Meng Wanzhou Affair? It's difficult to see the narrative that this political showdown was about taking a stand on principles as anything but hollow. 4 Oct 2021 | Matthew S.W. Silk
