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  • Is ISIS an ‘existential threat’?

    Is ISIS an ‘existential threat’?0

    What is the greatest existential threat to world security? The Islamic State? This month, yes. But back in July, the incoming chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Congressional committee that it was Russia. “If you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States,

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  • Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement?

    Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement?0

    In his speech withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump cited an econometric study by National Economic Research Associates. The study, which is both credible and alarming, speculated that meeting the emissions targets could cost 2.7 million jobs, with manufacturing hit particularly hard. Overall growth would suffer. To be sure, professional economists today (in contrast

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  • Is Illegal Immigration Creating a New Slave Caste?

    Is Illegal Immigration Creating a New Slave Caste?3

    Belatedly, the southern border crisis is getting the attention it deserves. There’s wall-to-wall coverage in the legacy and conservative press, independent documentaries proliferating on the subject, a Tucker Carlson interview with Bret Weinstein attracting over 15 million views on X, and President Joe Biden blaming Trump for a failed bill that involved the border crisis.

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  • Is Hunting Moral? A Philosopher Unpacks the Question

    Is Hunting Moral? A Philosopher Unpacks the Question0

    Every year as daylight dwindles and trees go bare, debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters see the act of stalking and killing deer, ducks, moose and other quarry as humane, necessary and natural, and thus as ethical. Critics respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to

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  • Is Humility a Specifically Religious Virtue?

    Is Humility a Specifically Religious Virtue?0

    • March 21, 2016

    In many secular contexts today, it’s considered a virtue for people to “be humble.” But should that be the case? Apart from a religious context, does it really make sense for people to cultivate humility? The background for this question is the idea that—if we care about being rational human beings—moral attitudes need to be

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  • Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?

    Is Homeschooling Only for the Elite?0

    The summary of an article in this September’s edition of Boston Magazine reads: “More and more of Boston’s smartest families are opting out of the education system to homeschool their children. Is this the new model for creating elite kids?” The perception used to be that homeschooling was the realm of families primarily motivated by

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