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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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  • Is Hillary’s Feminism Hurting Her Campaign?

    Is Hillary’s Feminism Hurting Her Campaign?0

    In a recent article for Salon Magazine, Democrat social critic Camille Paglia suggests that Hillary Clinton’s inability to gain popularity with the male electorate may be the result of her particular brand of feminism: “As a career woman, Hillary is rooted in second-wave feminism, which began with Betty Friedan’s co-founding of the National Organization for

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  • Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?

    Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?0

    The Harvard Gazette reported last month that it’s school of public health will create a new center to study happiness.   The center, created with a $21 million gift, will research how negative social circumstances—poverty, insecurity, poor social relationships, etc.—can impact happiness, as well as the following areas: Identifying and developing a measurement instrument—a positive

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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