morality

Writing for South Carolina’s Sun News, journalist Isaac Bailey offers us cutting commentary about how his State’s General Assembly recently failed to impeach governor Mark Sanford.

Are children naturally altruistic? A recent study seems to suggest so:

Consumerism masks true significance of Christmas
The Daily Nebraskan, December 7, 2009

Dear editors,

Campus groups share thoughts on immigration reform
Daily Illini, November 20, 2009

Dear Daily Illini,

President Obama has received praise from left and right for his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Commentators applauded Obama’s recognition that force and war are sometimes necessary to secure peace.

Elliot Gerson, secretary of the Rhodes trust, points to an interesting trend: In the past thirty or so years, Rhodes Scholars have disproportionately chosen to go into Wall Street careers. He writes:

Guilt is often portrayed as a “healthy” emotion – is it?

Millions of Americans choose to continue smoking despite known health risks. Presumably, the value they get from smoking is (rightly or wrongly) worth the risk to them. But for a short time, it appeared that smokers had a healthy third alternative: electronic cigarettes.

Drawing the line on study drug morality
The Yale Herald
Yale University

Madam—
In your article, "Drawing the line on study drug morality," the idea that “life isn’t fair” is often mentioned with regard to differences of intelligence, money, attention capacity, etc. If the simple fact of disparity is unfair, what then would constitute a fair life? What kind of equality would produce a just world? The implicit ideal in the “life isn’t fair” mantra is the idolization of equal condition.