May 26, 2026
A State That Supports Families, or a State-Shaped Family?
“Why now?” Rita Koganzon asks in her review of my book The Dignity of Dependence. “Why revive a thirty-year-old...
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November 25, 2025
Making Coders Moral Is Not a Good Enough Answer to AI Ethics
Dominic Burbidge rightly highlights the need for AI ethics to begin with the humans coding the algorithms, emphasizing...
July 2, 2024
Downtowns Don’t Matter Anymore
Joseph Lawler’s learned essay on induced demand, looking at the case of highway expansion in Austin, Texas, is...
December 28, 2022
Overthinking Heroism
Alan Jacobs and Adam Roberts discuss the latter’s new essay “Who’s Afraid of Cowardice?”
September 1, 2022
Is Morality Therapeutic?
Should therapists make patients confront hard truths or hard choices?
December 9, 2021
Don’t Wait for Silver Bullets for Social Media Reform
A framework to protect privacy and promote the “public interest” gives us what we need now: the right start.
December 9, 2021
December 9, 2021
How the “Public Interest” Serves the Interest of the Powerful
Paul Matzko responds to Nicholas Carr
December 9, 2021
Destroy Social Media, or Be Destroyed by It
Antón Barba-Kay responds to Nicholas Carr
December 9, 2021