World Affairs

Policy decisions and institutional design have a lot to say about the value we place on education and the components we deem necessary for its delivery.

What characteristics might reveal the difference between profiting during a crisis and profiting off of one?

The return of pre-industrial working conditions promises upheaval. What challenges should we expect? What gains might we hope for?

We need to communicate risks and encourage compliance, but sensationalization threatens to undue whatever gains we might make.

What does our evolving moral knowledge say about the culpability of historical figures? What kinds of wrongs can't be absolved?

There may be no ideal one-size-fits-all solution for schools reopening, but that doesn't mean that all plans are equal.

Whose rights are at stake when businesses require patrons to don face masks? How should we define the boundaries of our individual freedom?

Holding others legally and morally accountable requires individually confronting our capacity for (and complicity in) real-life horrors.

Genocide can take any number of forms, but how do we capture the unique moral harm perpetrated by programs targeting children?

From the pandemic to ongoing economic, social, and political oppression, it's not that our obligations have grown, but that our failings have become more obvious.

The way words are received is not merely a matter of the speaker's intent. And the words spoken by government officials operate differently than those of everyday citizens.

With calls for removing Confederate monuments coming to a head, how should we view them in history? Context is key, and monuments alone do not constitute educational material.

As states re-open, risk is frequently presented in a four-tiered color-coded chart. That chart doesn't present meaningful data or allow us to understand risk: it's a false sense of security.

The retraction of three papers on treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine reflect a crisis in the scientific community: how to handle data from private companies. What reforms are necessary to avoid such data-based scandals in the future?

As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the world, Australia must also confront the very present racism of how Indigenous people are treated by police.

If tear gas is a substance that is "evil in itself" (malum in se), why can police use tear gas on protesters? Just war theory provides criticism.

Speaking only to one's faithful followers is not an effective strategy for solving collective action problems, but it takes a good deal of courage to not give up.

The virtue of patience is being replaced by expediency. But what marks the appropriate time to sidestep procedure?

Different governments' contact tracing strategies raise important questions about public health and personal privacy.

When even our experts disagree how can we locate the proper balance between skepticism, agnosticism, and justified belief?