Ethical Issues & Debates

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it ...

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it ...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of t...

'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to any...

Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s ...

Despite her famous pseudonym, Jane Roe, no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (19472017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fra...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is i...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some...

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to w...

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers p...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth,...

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIrans cri...

The last thirty years have seen a resurgence of interest in virtue among philosophers, psychologists, and educators. Over time, this interdisciplin...

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment ...

Before William Jennings Bryan successfully prosecuted John Scopes in the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, he was a prominent antievolution agitator in...

The Applied Ethics Primer offers a concise introduction to both basic argumentation and normative ethical theory. The concepts discussed reflect th...