The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible. By David P. Barash.

In American politics, we aren’t witnessing an unprecedented outbreak of lying. Another term is more appropriate: bullshit. By Philip Kitcher.

Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed? By Catherine Nichols.

Saddam Hussein and his senior lieutenants were rightly executed for their crimes, but the foreign politicians and officials who were responsible for the sanctions regime that killed so many deserved to stand beside them in the dock. By Patrick Cockburn.

‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author? By Jessica Jernigan.

Philippa Foot was one of a group of brilliant women philosophers who swam against the tide of 20th-century moral thought. By Nakul Krishna.

They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them. By Claire Dederer.

Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse. By Paul Bloom.

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Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial. By Nathan J. Robinson.

The science of hate can help us realise who the real criminal is: is it the lynchers, the instigators or both? And is an apathetic government complicit? By Sumaiya Shaikh.

Why future conflicts could be full of “light.” By Sebastien Roblin.

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Let’s hope we all remember the moral arguments about health care once the Trump administration ends. By Matt Taibbi.

There are plenty of less familiar examples: from zebra fish and moray eels to the stupendous intelligence of the honey badgers. By Ian Ground.

The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war.” By Thomas Powell.

“’Terrorists don’t care who they kill,’ Phillips said. ‘It’s the number of bodybags that determines success.’ ‘And the publicity,’ Robinson interjected. ‘And the publicity,’ Phillips agreed.” By Des Freedman.

When you’re in the business of commentary, every day you see hundreds of people speaking authoritatively on subjects they know little about. Usually it’s political, but make no mistake as to the capacity people have for not knowing what they’re talking about... By Ben Howe.

More than 80 years later, families of men in the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study detail a legacy of suffering, and seek healing. (May 10, 2017)

The closest I ever got to Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was 1,720.7 miles away — or so the Internet assures me... By Tom Engelhardt.