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Showing posts with label Jewish ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish ethics. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2025

Beinart's apology is, ironically, the antithesis of humility

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My last post on Peter Beinart's craven apology to his BDS comrades for speaking at Tel Aviv University was scathing, but it didn't ...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

From the Drowning Child to a Drowning World: Moral Proximity in the Age of Power

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Introduction: Refuting Singer and Reframing the Purpose of Ethics Peter Singer's famous thought experiment, first outlined in "Fam...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Fac Ut Fiat: A secular update to Pascal's Wager

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(Note: As I am writing my philosophy book, this short chapter ended up on the cutting room floor. So I’m publishing it here.) Cogito ergo su...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The Moral Politician: A Jewish Ethical Reflection on Power, Integrity, and Public Trust

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For Election Day, I asked my AskHillel ethical chatbot how an moral politician should act - balancing his or her legitimate competing intere...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

What the Platner affair reveals about political morality

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Every political movement faces moments that reveal what it truly values. The Graham Platner affair in Maine is one of those moments, not bec...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Let's talk about campus free speech and ethics

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The New York Times today published two letters that perfectly capture the incoherence at the heart of our free speech debates. One lawyer ar...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Teshuvah as a solution to the Determinism/Free Will debate

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We are now in the Ten Days of Repentance, when Jews prepare for Yom Kippur through self-examination, apology, repair, and teshuvah -  repent...