The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who deserves preferential access to a public good.

I’ve recently heard some sharp comments from friends about male authors publishing books under female names. The pseudonyms are sometimes gender-neutral, but in genres dominated by women, readers ...

My 15-year-old son recently started dating a girl his age. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was young.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on divulging a family secret. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have been living with a secret for close to 55 years. My first cousin, whom I am very close with ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband of 52 years was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 10 years ago. Currently I am a full-time caregiver. I hope to place my husband in a memory-care facility ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks other Silicon Valley behemoths waste time chasing clicks instead of saving the world.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a conflict of morals and budget. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I am a straight, married veteran researching potential doctoral programs. Expense is a huge factor ...

As President Trump’s crackerjack cabinet settles in and unsettles any sentient American, we are not beholding a series of ...

Our international institutions simply are not designed to address systemic issues indifferent to national borders ...

In the same vein, Joshua Greene's work on "moral tribes", Peter Singer's views on "expanding the circle", and Kwame Anthony Appiah's insights into "how moral revolutions happen" have provided much ...