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Girls Gone Mild
An article in the New York Times titled "Students of Virginity" reports on the surprising number of "abstinence clubs" popping…
Bad Science for Worse Philosophy: The “Ruthlessness” Gene
Hebrew University recently completed a study on the genetic basis for “ruthlessness,” and it’s getting some media coverage.Nature included it…
The Profit Motive on Trial: A Look at the Famous Raymond Dirks Insider Trading Case
An article in the latest edition of the Undercurrent analyzes the moral arguments underlying insider trading laws. In this post,…
Praise Big Pharma
If you are sick, there is no better place and time to live than America in the 21st century. The…
Inside Insider Trading
A scientist working for a pharmaceutical company learns that after decades of research and development, she has succeeded in creating…
Defining Life: The Moral Case for Stem Cell Research
In a recent political move, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain voiced his opposition to embryonic stem cell research (ESC). Yet,…
Too Big to Bail
Every few days we hear that another leading financial institution has written down billions more on subprime investments gone bad.…
A Little Change Means a Lot
Opponents of embryonic stem cell research often highlight the similarities between babies, fetuses, and embryos, and dismiss the obvious difference…
Two Articles on Ayn Rand in Student Papers
Two articles published in the last two days, in major university papers, discuss Ayn Rand's ideas. The first, printed in…
Wafa Sultan’s Moral Certainty
Rule of Reason links to a new video in which Wafa Sultan debates Egyptian Islamist Tal’at Rmeih on an Al-Jazeera…