That's a Wrap!
This year, our community read, listened, clicked, shared, and—most importantly—thought together. In 2025, The Prindle Institute for Ethics welcomed nearly 300,000 visits across our website and digital platforms, with major growth in international audiences and a sharp rise in referrals from AI assistants and university learning systems. We’re reaching more people where they are—whether that’s in classrooms, on campus, or through the tools they already use to explore big questions. Ethical inquiry is traveling farther and faster than ever, and educators across the country are using our work to spark deeper conversations.
Our most-visited pieces of the year reflect that wide curiosity. Young learners and teachers turned again and again to our Teaching Children Philosophy collection, exploring classic stories like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, A Bad Case of the Stripes, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and The Emperor’s New Clothes. Readers of The Prindle Post gravitated toward pressing questions—from whether violent protest or assassination can ever be justified, to how deepfakes and gamified health tools complicate our moral lives. And listeners of Examining Ethics tuned in to episodes on what philosophy can teach us about reasoning, and how far our moral concern should extend.
The 2025 Prindle Wrapped
01: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Teaching Children Philosophy)
02: A Bad Case of the Stripes (Teaching Children Philosophy)
03: Is Violent Protest Ever Justified? (The Prindle Post)
04: Does Studying Philosophy Make Better Thinkers? (Examining Ethics)
05: Can Assassination Ever Be the Right Thing to Do? (The Prindle Post)
06: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Teaching Children Philosophy)
07: The Emperor’s New Clothes (Teaching Children Philosophy)
08: The Moral Circle (Examining Ethics)
09: An Ethical Consideration of Deepfakes (The Prindle Post)
10: The Vape-o-Gotchi: When Play Meets Health (The Prindle Post)
Together, these top ten pieces show a community eager to wrestle with the ethical dimensions of everyday life and global change. That curiosity—thoughtful, playful, and deeply engaged—is what drives our work year after year. Thank you for being part of this growing community and for making ethics a shared conversation!
