September 4, 2013
Science and the Search for Meaning
Peter Morales on Unitarian Universalism and what science and religion share.
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April 12, 2013
Moderately Socially Conservative Darwinians
Darwin and some of his modern-day disciples may offer an antidote to our culture’s corrosive obsession with autonomy....
April 11, 2013
Born to Run
Are we right to conscript horses into the racing life? Each year, tens of thousands are born and bred to run, but only...
April 11, 2013
Character Formation and the Origins of AA
Alcoholics Anonymous, like much of mental health care in America, can trace its origins to the teachings of Christian...
April 11, 2013
Swords into Syllogisms
Steven Pinker says that violence has been declining since the beginning of modernity, and we have Reason to thank for...
April 11, 2013
The Evolutionary Ethics of E. O. Wilson
Can evolution explain all of human morality — our sense of right and wrong, our attachments to one another and to the...
April 8, 2013
Do Elephants Have Souls?
Caitrin Keiper on the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion
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April 4, 2013
Regarding Animals
How humanity should treat the rest of the animal kingdom and how we should think about the moral significance of...
April 3, 2013
St. Francis, Christian Love, and the Biotechnological Future
William B. Hurlbut reflects on hubris and humility, suffering and redemption
November 14, 2012
Yucca Mountain: A Post-Mortem
Adam J. White on the death of the planned nuclear-waste repository