Tag Archives: Ethics
From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time
by Katherine Boo, author of the forthcoming Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (Random House, February 2012). Request an advanced reader’s copy, details below.* As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate … Continue reading
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“Should This Be the Last Generation?”
In a recent online essay on The New York Times Opinionator Blog, Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, posits a simple yet profound question: should this be the last generation? Citing the … Continue reading
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The Right Answer, And Other Nonexistent Things
by Thomas Mullen, author of Last Town on Earth (Random House, 2007). When reading works of fiction, students often think that there’s a right answer for how they’re supposed to respond to the book. Surely (as they’re sometimes taught in … Continue reading
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