Thomas Laqueur reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.

On the difference between a constitutional right to free speech and what we consider morally appropriate speech.

Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care urges voters to support parties that will reinstate refugee health coverage

An ethicist explains why the Volkswagen scandal didn't shock him.

Psychologists used to manipulate and deceive their subjects with impunity. Did the end justify the means? By Antonio Melechi.

Imagine two worlds—one horrendous, the other hopeful, but both actual. By Thong Nguyen.

In this country, we celebrate the First Amendment, which prevents the government from interfering with religious beliefs and practices. But what if those beliefs and practices make children suffer? By Julia Scheeres.

The first-year dissection is often an experience that teaches medical students to emotionally detach from their patients. By forcing future doctors to learn about the lives of their cadavers, some medical schools are trying to reverse the effect. By John Tyler Allen. (July 28)

One day in January, I was facilitating a fourth-year elective course with eight medical students. It was a medical humanities class, and the topic that afternoon was the virtue of forgiveness. A student named David led the discussion, and I listened as they exchanged ideas. When their energy waned, I asked, “Do any of you have someone to forgive from your clinical experiences? Did anything ever happen that you need to forgive or perhaps still can't forgive?”

Push for a cull in northern NSW comes after recent spike in shark sightings and attacks which have kept people out of the water and away from the region

One of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists returns to the crater of the first nuclear bomb on its 70th birthday. By Brian Merchant.

I would argue that most of Jesus’ ethical teachings are entangled in his false apocalyptic paradigm and are disastrous if taken seriously (see: a previous post). Obviously not everyone agrees (even in the secular world) and I’d like to see if there are any good arguments to be made to reasonably salvage some good Jesus. As far as my ongoing “Judging Jesus” project goes, one might call this a matter of, “seeking disconfirming evidence.”

In the past, owners were quick to put their pets down. Now, with many viewing pets as family members, are they waiting too long?

Are you the Socrates of the National Security Agency? That was the question the NSA asked its workforce in a memo soliciting applications for an in-house ethicist who would write a philosophically minded column about signals intelligence. By Peter Maass.

The Theory of Anti-Natalism. By David Benatar.

How much is your attention on the Internet really worth? By Tim Hwang.

Positive results are exciting. We have a natural curiosity about the powerful new cholesterol-lowering drug or fresh research showing spicy food might stave off diseases of aging. But for years it's been increasingly apparent that this interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science, with the ho-hum results that show a drug didn't really work or an experiment failed falling through the cracks... By Carolyn Johnson.

In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one. On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal’s ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a valley bordered by the Himalayan range. Fraser, a powerfully built 38-year-old British wilderness paramedic with a shaved head and prominent brow, had arrived a few weeks earlier for an extended business trip.

Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.

To the cops, Jabbar Gibson was just a low-level drug pusher. But to the residents of a New Orleans public housing complex, he’s the man who rescued them from Hurricane Katrina when no one else would. By Joel Anderson.