Words for Good and Evil, Part I
In the months to come, England’s National Health Service will sterilize a young man with a very low IQ. In Philadelphia, a three-year-old who will soon die without a new kidney is barred from entering...
View ArticleWords for Good and Evil, Part II
Continued from yesterday. “Why is it possible,” asked Richard Feynman a year before he won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, “for people to stay so woefully ignorant and yet reasonably happy in modern...
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Kill Time: The Ethics of Storytelling
By Daniel Taylor Is The Great Gatsby a crime novel? (There’s a murder.) Crime and Punishment? (It’s in the title.) Moby Dick? (Oh the whales!) People like to make distinctions between mystery, crime,...
View ArticlePoetry as a Weapon of Jihad
“Strap on a suicide vest? Join a global mission whose leaders preach hatred and acts of violence against civilians? Spurn the traditions of one’s own community in favor of radicalization? Jihadis face...
View ArticleThe Vegan at Our Chicken Slaughter
A few years ago, we invited the newest neighbor in our rural intentional Christian community to help us slaughter the chickens we had raised for meat. Our neighbor told us about his guest up the hill;...
View ArticleWhen Ethics Conflict with the Law
Among the courses that I teach is Professional Responsibility—Legal Ethics—which is a subject covered on every state bar exam in the country. The professional code of ethics—the Model Rules of...
View ArticleA Conversation with Lauren Winner, Part 2
By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. This post originally appeared as a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image issue 84. Each chapter of Lauren F. Winner’s book, Wearing God: Clothing,...
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