Is It OK to Lie in Order to Feed Hungry Families?

I worry that taking extra food for the people our organization serves means that others won’t get what they need.

My Brother Keeps Falling for Online Romance Scams. Should I Bail Him Out Again?

My older brother is in his early 70s and lives overseas. For many years he has repeatedly fallen for scams, most often ...
In These Times

Chuck Klosterman is the Ethicist?

Rock critic Chuck Klosterman has taken over the Ethicist column at the New York Times Magazine. An unlikely choice, to be sure. How did they pick the Bearded One? It’s as if someone dared them to find ...
GeekWire

Tech ethicist on why healthcare isn’t ready for ambitious AI overhaul

Alex John London, director Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Ethics and Policy and chief ethicist at the university’s Block Center for Technology and Society, speaking at an AI and medicine event at ...
The Harvard Crimson

Ethicist, Should I Date My Comp Director?

Andrés Muedano ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Adams House. Editor’s Note: This is the first installation of a reboot of the Amateur Ethicist column. This is a site of ...
NPR

The Ethicist: Judgment Call at a Crisis Center

Some problems aren't easily solved. Tonight Randy Cohen considers a question that's tormented our next guest for decades. Randy Cohen writes The Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine. He ...
NPR

Ethicist: How Much Hurricane Help Is Enough?

A New Orleans resident whose home suffered only mild damage from Hurricane Katrina wonders how much aid he really deserves. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. It's been a ...
GeekWire

An ethicist’s take on Amazon’s fake review problem

When you drive a 15-year-old Subaru, you yearn for Bluetooth but you’re willing to settle for the aux input. Yet even when I happen to have the appropriate cable handy, I realize I’ll need something ...
The Atlantic

Chuck Klosterman Is The New York Times Magazine's New Ethicist

Update (2:04 p.m. EDT): Klosterman, a music and culture critic best known for his Esquire column Chuck Klosterman's America and the book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, confirmed via email that he starts ...
Medscape

Robo-Ethicist Not Ready for Prime Time, Says Ethicist

Hi. I’m Art Caplan, at the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Every once in a while, somebody comes up to me and says, “You know, the work you do, giving advice, ...
Medscape

Docs Must Share Correct Info About Tylenol and Autism, Ethicist Says

Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. As almost all of us will know very well, the big reveal took place about the cause of autism, with a major ...