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The New York Times & Log In

Sep 10, 12:59pm    (3 reviews)  ethics, government  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washin...

A talk with James Hughes - The Boston Globe

Sep 9, 9:24am  ethics, science  http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/...

The New York Times & Log In

Aug 13, 5:05am    (1 review)  ethics, science  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/scienc...

Handle With Care The New York Times, Cornelia Dean "The complexity of newly engineered systems coupled with their potential impact on lives, the environment, etc., raise a set of ethical issues that engineers had not been thinking about," said William A. Wulf, a computer scientist who until last year headed the National Academy of Engineering. As one of his official last acts, he established the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society there." NAE Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society "Sheila Jasanoff, a professor of science and technology studies at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, said a first step was for scientists and engineers to realize that in complex issues, "uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy are always present." In what she described as "a call for humility," she urged researchers to cultivate and teach "modes of knowing that are often pushed aside in expanding scientific understanding and technological capacity" including history, moral philosophy, political theory and social studies of science -- what people value and why they value it." "Angel of the Apocalypse" ~ ~ ~

The New York Times & Log In

Aug 12, 6:42am  ethics, science, technology  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/scienc...

The New York Times & Log In

Jul 26, 6:26am  ethics  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/...

The Ethics of a Psychologist - The Current

Jul 14, 5:12pm  ethics, psychology  http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archiv...

Ape rights and the myth of animal equality. - By William Saletan - Slate...

Jul 1, 6:00am  ethics  http://www.slate.com/id/2194568?from=rss

Maintenance Notice (washingtonpost.com)

Jun 6, 9:35am  ethics  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

It&039;s the Adultery, Stupid: Politics &Power: vanityfair.com

Apr 30, 5:38pm    (3 reviews)  ethics, politics, scandal  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...

It's the Adultery, Stupid [As long as I am on the subject of sexual frustration in polyester . . . ] The private follies of middle-aged male politicians are treated as weakness, perversion, corruption--anything but the real issue: human desire. Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff

"Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not just who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (sex, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race. It has the power to alter elections, undermine parties, and, possibly, change history. Barack Obama is running for president today because the ex-wife of his favored opponent in the 2004 Senate campaign in Illinois, Jack Ryan, said her husband took her to swingers' clubs, handing the election to Obama. Arguably, the Republican Party began its descent into possible oblivion when it lost its majority in 2006 not most of all because of George Bush's serial failures but, more concretely, because Mark Foley, a Republican representative from Florida, groped or wanted to grope congressional pages--that seemed to sum up the G.O.P.'s vulnerabilities, hypocrisies, and grossness more than anything, even the war. Eliot Spitzer represents not just an especially louche scandal but a shame-on-us moment because we didn't see that Mr. Clean was Mr. Dirty. That's a lesson for us: Don't be snowed; assume the extreme. And that's a lesson for politicians: Your official self can't be so at odds with your sexual self--that's what gives scandal its bite. Getting Spitzer wrong means we have to be more tenacious in our analysis." Ethics -- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ~ ~ ~

Randy Cohen - The Ethicist - New York Times

Mar 28, 11:56am  ethics  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/magazi...