From Picking Fruit to Buying It: The Health of California Farmworkers When we buy fruit at the grocery store, we often fail to realize the intensive and undervalued human labor that goes into growing and harvesting that fruit. 23 Apr 19 | Hira Ahmad
Lil Nas X vs. Billboard: The Charting Conundrum of “Old Town Road” Are the boundaries of genre serving to create divides based on race in the music industry? And how might Billboard be complicit? 22 Apr 19 | Byron Mason II
Cultural Value, Charitable Giving, and the Fire at Notre Dame The fire at Notre Dame was a huge cultural event matched only by the outpouring of support from donations and social media posts in response. But shouldn't there be other things we support just as strongly? 19 Apr 19 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Power, Pollution, and Golf Maybe golf is the most emblematic sport of the 21st century -- but that isn't necessarily a good thing. 18 Apr 19 | Beatrice Harvey
Jacinda Ardern, Christchurch, and Moral Leadership In what ways did New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern display meaningful characteristics of moral leadership? 17 Apr 19 | Desmonda Lawrence
Airplane Crashes and the Diffusion of Responsibility How can we evaluate moral responsibility in cases like the Boeing airplane crashes? 16 Apr 19 | Andrew Bobker
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? 15 Apr 19 | Zachary Batt
The Ethics of Philosophical Exemptions Given the threat to public health, what bar should a claim to philosophical exemption from vaccination need to clear? 12 Apr 19 | Kenneth Boyd
What It Means to Legalize Euthanasia Societal acceptance of physician-assisted suicide has been growing, but the costs aren't always so easy to see. 11 Apr 19 | Prindle News Hound
Are Rentier Economies Ethical? How does the current capitalist system foster inequality? 9 Apr 19 | Amy Elyse Gordon
Is Shaming an Important Moral Tool? Shaming occurs everyday, both in real life and on the internet. Does it have the desired effect of getting people to change their actions, or is it a tool best left unused? 8 Apr 19 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Racist, Sexist Robots: Prejudice in AI While we hope our AI creations will overcome human shortcomings, they all too often replicate the prejudicial patterns they see. 5 Apr 19 | Meredith McFadden
Christchurch: White Supremacism, Politics and Moral Evil How do we define moral evil? And how do the events that happened in Christchurch and afterwards inform this definition? 4 Apr 19 | Desmonda Lawrence
Misogyny, ‘Purity,’ and Leggings at Notre Dame Many of our ideas about 'modesty' and 'purity' are rooted in misogyny, as recent events at the University of Notre Dame help to illustrate. 3 Apr 19 | A.G. Holdier
Permalancing and What it Means for Work “Full-time freelancing” is becoming the norm for more and more American workers. What does this trend mean? 2 Apr 19 | Kenneth Boyd
Inclusion, Artistic Expression, and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Inclusivity and diversity in fashion has been a topic of debate -- but what is that debate centered on? 1 Apr 19 | Rachel Robison-Greene
This Land Is Not Our Land Our enshrinement of wilderness areas and national parks overshadows a troubling past. 29 Mar 19 | Hira Ahmad
Depression, "Special K," and the FDA A powerful new antidepressant is set to hit the market, but should the FDA be in the business of fast-tracking drug approval based on need? 28 Mar 19 | Haley Thompson
MAGA Hats, Nathan Phillips, & Journalism in the Social Media Age The furor sparked by the slanted treatment of Covington High School protesters raises questions about the prospects of objectivity in the days of instant news. 27 Mar 19 | Prindle News Hound
The Ethics of Vaccination Exemptions The recent measles outbreak in Washington should prompt us to reexamine how we balance public health and individual religious conviction. 26 Mar 19 | Zachary Batt
The Gray Area at the Intersection of Gender, Biology, and Identity in Sport The recent case of Caster Semenya has brought to the fore questions about fairness and inclusivity in women’s sport. Is testosterone testing defensible? 25 Mar 19 | Desmonda Lawrence
What Does It Mean to Be an Ally? Examining recent events, like those that happened on DePauw's campus, can help us define what allyship really is. 22 Mar 19 | Byron Mason II
College Admissions and the Ethics of Unfair Advantages The recent admissions scandal has revealed the unfair advantages that certain people have when applying to school, and what that might mean for the rest of us. 21 Mar 19 | Kenneth Boyd
What's Wrong with State Media? Recent accusations that Fox News is a propaganda machine might strike some as hyperbole, but there is a real danger in the dwindling line between the government and news organizations. 20 Mar 19 | Andrew Bobker