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Giving With a Big Heart and a Tough Mind

Kate Grant | Posted 01.03.2013 | Impact
Read More: Harvard, Charity, Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save, Princeton, Unicef, Fistula Foundation, Givewell, Impact News
Kate Grant

How many Ivy League professors have the guts to tell well-meaning donors to forgo giving to the Harvard Universities and Metropolitan Museums of the world and give to the charities that serve the neediest instead?

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Confessions of a Meat Addict

Steve Heilig | Posted 07.08.2012 | Home
Read More: New York Times the Ethicist, Veganism, Peter Singer, Michael Pollan, Vegetarianism, Meat, Jonathan Safran Foer, Home News
Steve Heilig

The New York Times Magazine's "Ethicist" just held an essay contest with the theme, "Is it ethical to eat meat?" The judges were an all-star roster fr...

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"Speciesism: The Movie" May Change Your Worldview

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.21.2012 | Green
Read More: Speciesism, Temple Grandin, Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, Animals, Mark Devries, Video, Green News
Bruce Friedrich

Not only does Speciesism: The Movie ask these life-changing questions, but it does so while taking viewers on an adventure that is tremendously entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny.

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What's St. Paul's Beef With Oxen? Animal Compassion In Light Of 1 Corinthians 9:9-10

Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.21.2012 | Religion
Read More: St. Paul, New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, The Bible, Jane Austen, Animal Compassion, Slavery, Mansfield Park, Edward Said, Christian Environmentalism, Animals, Postcolonialism, Apostle Paul, Animal Ethics, Albert Schweitzer, Peter Singer, Environment, Scripture Commentary, Green Faith, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

My question is whether or not there is a way to read 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 that does justice to Paul while minimizing bias against nonhuman species among his readers?

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Rationing And The NICU: An Interview With Catholic Ethicist Charles C. Camosy

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 10.24.2011 | Religion
Read More: Peter Singer, Too Expensive to Treat? Finitude, Tragedy, Charles Camosy, Health Care Reform, Catholic Moral Theology, National Conference of U.S. Catholic Bishops, Rationing Health Care, Health Care, The Neonatal ICU, Religion News
Christine A. Scheller

We're already rationing health care, Fordham University ethicist Charles C. Camosy argues in his book, so why not reconsider the resources expended on premature babies?

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Should You Save a Drowning Child?

Saundra Schimmelpfennig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Aid, The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer, Charitable Advertising, Impact News
Saundra Schimmelpfennig

In The Life You Can Save, the author asks -- if you see a child drowning and there is no one else around, would you wade in to save the child knowing that in doing so you will ruin your expensive shoes and be late for work?

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What Would You Do With a Billion Dollars?

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Peter Singer, Poverty, David Tepper, Charity, Hedge Fund Managers, Ethics, Morality, Billionaires, Fairness, Business News
Tony Schwartz

Today, Americans donate an average of 2 percent of their gross income to charitable causes. But what if the richest people gave much more away (and still kept a lot)?

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As Revolutionary As the Introduction of Gunpowder: Peter W. Singer on Drone Warfare

Ian Masters | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Robotics, Ian Masters, Peter Singer, Cia, Drones, Pakistan Drone Attacks, World News
Ian Masters

We don't know the legality of drone warfare, because right now we're at the stage of simply denying that it even happens.

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An Open Letter to the Animal Liberation Front and their Supporters

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Vivisection, Jane Goodall, Peter Singer, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Primates, Animal Testing, Racism, Animal Liberation Front, John Brown, Los Angeles News
Eric Michael Johnson

The terror tactics used against the family of UCLA neuroscientist Dario Ringach has completely undermined the moral authority that your movement hoped to achieve.

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Philanthropy and the Economic Crisis

Georgia Levenson Keohane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Social Welfare, Harlen Childrens Zone, Poverty, Social Contract, Tiger Foundation, Philanthropy, Economic Crisis, Non-Profits, Charitable Giving, Pri, Stimulus, Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Peter Singer, Ford Foundation, Bonus, Economic Recession, Heron Foundation, Julian Robertson, Strategic Philanthropy, Blue Ridge Foundation, Giving, Safety Net, Basic Needs, Socially-Useless, Foundations, Alesina, Glaeser, Impact News
Georgia Levenson Keohane

This week and next I am a guest blogger at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. My posts address philanthropy and the economic crisis, and include ...

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Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: New Atheists, Atheism, Duke Ellington, Nazis, Sam Harris, Ethics, Ts Eliot, Richard Rorty, Morality, Picasso, Richard Dawkins, Wh Auden, Vivaldi, Peter Singer, Healthy Living News
Frank Schaeffer

If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life

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