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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Last Children of Down Syndrome

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 19, 2020October 19, 2022

In 2019, only 18 babies in Denmark were born with Down syndrome. Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t.

Posted inQuotes

Who Gets a Vaccine?

by Carolyn Wells September 28, 2020October 17, 2022

We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized

The Month of Giving Dangerously

by Elizabeth Greenwood January 31, 2018October 19, 2022

Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Slow Confiscation of Everything

by michelleweber February 17, 2017October 19, 2022

Climate apocalypse: a coming calamity that’s morally different from nuclear exchange in a way we haven’t yet dealt with.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Against Willpower

by benhuberman February 9, 2017October 19, 2022

It’s a concept that has shaped ethical debates for centuries. A clinical psychiatrist now thinks it’s time we got rid of it.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Why Do We Get Suspicious About ‘Extreme Morality’?

by heymarkarms June 22, 2014October 19, 2022

“Some thought people who appeared to be extremely ethical must be somehow cheating—that they couldn’t actually be doing all those good things. Others believed they were doing those things, but they found that so weird that they thought they must have some kind of mental illness—that they must lack the ordinary component of desires or […]

Posted inUncategorized
by Longreads April 18, 2013October 19, 2022

“Lives of the Moral Saints.” Larissa MacFarquhar with David V. Johnson, Boston Review.

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