Prager U: If Good and Evil Exist, God Exists
Dec 11, 2012 by Jason Fertig |
What is the basis for moral good and evil?
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Are Modern Professors Experts on Good and Evil?
Sep 11, 2012 by Bruce W. Davidson |
An international conference on "perspectives on evil" revealed academics' weak understanding of morality.
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Business (Ethics) as Usual
Jul 16, 2012 by Jason Fertig |
Textbooks tend to take a superficial and often anti-market approach.
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Video: J. Budziszewski on a Primer on Natural Law
Jul 27, 2011 by |
Professor J. Budziszewski discusses classical Natural Law with Inside Academia's Andy Nash.
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Reengineering Ethics Education
Jan 25, 2011 by Jason Fertig |
Teaching "ethics" won't prevent the next Enron; ethics can only be taught indirectly, argues Jason Fertig.
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Give Students the Gift of Ethics
Jan 20, 2011 by Douglas Campbell |
Adhering to a set of ethical standards is our greatest expression of human freedom and individuality, writes Douglas Campbell.
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Can We Teach Someone to Be Ethical?
Jan 20, 2011 by Nicholas Capaldi |
Nicholas Capaldi outlines four ways of persuading someone to do the right thing.
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Teaching Ethics: A View from the Trenches
Jan 20, 2011 by Nathan Tierney |
Nathan Tierney offers principles and practical advice, including arguments against ethical relativism, for teaching ethics in a college classroom today.
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For Goodness Sake: Sustainability Ponders Ethics
Jul 21, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
“Being sustainable has become more-or-less synonymous with being good,” two professors write. But even sustainability can be either virtuous or vulgar, depending on your motive.
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Going Green is Part of Social Integrity? No Comment
Feb 23, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
"An Honor Code must link social integrity with ecological sustainability," says a student. Is that really so?
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The Global Warming Debate, Peer Review and University Science
Nov 23, 2009 by Mitchell Langbert |
Dr. Tim Ball has written an article in the November 21 Canada Free Press in which he calls leading climatologists "frauds." He bases this on computer-based information obtained by someone who hacked into the East Anglia… Continue Reading | 3 Comments >
Teaching Can Be Dangerous
Oct 30, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
Cross-posted from NAS.org, "An Unsuccessful Education Can Ruin You": The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article, "Course Reminds Budding Ph.D.'s of the Damage They Can Do," about a seminar taught at the… Continue Reading | 5 Comments >
Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun
Oct 31, 2008 by Ashley Thorne |
The college-driven trend to divulge says something about higher education's vision of itself as therapeutic.
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Unbuttoned in Illinois
Sep 29, 2008 by Peter Wood |
The University of Illinois has issued a strange notice concerning its employees' buttons and bumper stickers.
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Miscarriage of Academic Freedom?
Apr 22, 2008 by Ashley Thorne |
A Yale student's senior project raises questions about higher education's approach to art.
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