World Affairs

The current crisis has provided a new context to evaluate our relationship to meat and the machinery that produces it. Can we justify the cost of this "vital" labor?

Do the responsibilities of celebrity extend to keeping some of their opinions to themselves? Must they play by a different set of rules than the general public?

The disconnect between semantic and pragmatic meaning hides all sorts of political motive and epistemic claims.

History, geography, and politics have conspired to keep most Americans sheltered from the outside world. This has worked both to our benefit and our detriment.

The question of where we are, how we got here, and what we should do now is more complex than our current conversation admits.

Translating the moral wrong of genocide into the legal language of law requires revisiting our colonial past.

Continual encroachment on a shared resource undermines what is a necessarily collective and collaborative enterprise.

How can we balance deference to experts with the need for inclusive political discourse?

The current crisis offers a rare opportunity to reexamine and revise the economic, political, and social structures that define our worldview.

The anti-lockdown protests raise difficult questions about the justification of our basic rights and the legitimate limits to our personal freedoms.

The current crisis should persuade us to reconsider our relationship to the natural world.

In the absence of a substantial ethical code of conduct, it's difficult to assess the weight that economic recommendations should have in the realm of public policy.

Is there a meaningful distinction between loose science and antiscientific sentiment? Is it just a matter of intent?

The Trump administration has redefined the role of the federal government and our understanding of who it operates on behalf of and what kinds of collective interests it pursues.

Where can we find a home to ease our existential angst in these Absurd times?

Are the conditions inmate find themselves in during the pandemic consistent with the purpose incarceration is meant to serve?

Just as with scientific hypotheses, the social and political beliefs that survive this crisis should be those that have actually borne fruit.

How do we balance the loss and suffering caused by the pandemic against the hardship that awaits in the economic recession?

The ambiguity in the Surgeon General's remarks communicates a troubling message further complicated by the public position from which it was delivered.

Many who resist shelter in place orders cast their decision as a triumph of personal liberty over government overreach. But what of their duty to others?