Meteuphoric

People often object to human life having a value placed on it, explicitly or implicitly. (I'm told there are good reasons, apparently to...

Some of my friends think that a random process of deciding who should live or die is more important than the lives of those people, because ...

The best way to dull hearts and win minds is with a scalpel. Give up your outdated faith in the pen over the sword! With medical training an...

Making lists to guide medical procedures saves lives but is unethical, say Americans. What if a way was found to rescue hun­dreds of thousan...

The US houses the highest proportion of its people in prison of any country, as Adam Liptak discusses thought provokingly. As expected, thi...

From Kwame Anthony Appiah's fascinating longer article on fairness in politics , via Greg Mankiw : In the 1970s, the Nobel Prize-winning...

Reported by the Economist (and discussed on Overcoming Bias), religion brings social cooperation. Attempts to synthesise secular solidarit...