November 12, 2025
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 10, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Culture
November 5, 2025
A New Edition of Hastings Center Report Is Now Available
Hastings Center Report (vol. 55, Issue S1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 23, 2025
Opinion: Misinformation About the End of Life Is Harming Organ Donation
(Undark) – A dangerous pattern is emerging in media coverage of these topics. A previously expert-driven debate (still far from settled) about the medical and legal frameworks and best practices in end-of-life care is turning into a political exercise in … Read More
October 7, 2025
The Pressure of Dating With a Fertility Deadline
(New York Times) – For some single women in their 30s and 40s, their biological clocks add unwelcome stress to an already fraught process. The stubborn notion that women’s fertility falls off a cliff at 35 has slowly shifted in … Read More
October 6, 2025
This school district asked students to draft its AI policy
(Washington Post) – At schools across the country, educators and administrators are scrambling to set rules for how students and educators use ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools for homework and other assignments. In one Silicon Valley school district, a … Read More
October 6, 2025
ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father
(The Atlantic) – In 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died. Dad, a pilot, had gone up in one of his twin-props with a friend and lost control after … Read More
September 25, 2025
When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette
(Ars Technica) – f an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before they’ll take your money. This … Read More
September 11, 2025
The places where ‘hearing voices’ is seen as a good thing
(BBC) – Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these … Read More
September 2, 2025
Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?
(New York Times) – Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. Every era molds a different version of self-realization. With each chapter in American history, … Read More
August 18, 2025
Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations
(Tech Crunch) – Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s … Read More
August 4, 2025
Is It Still Disney Magic if It’s AI?
(Wall Street Journal) – A deepfake Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling to figure out simultaneously how to use AI in the filmmaking process and how to protect themselves against … Read More
July 28, 2025
A New Edition of Christian Bioethics Is Now Available
Christian Bioethics (vol. 31, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 1, 2025
Shadow of a Doubt: How OCD Came to Haunt American Life
(Harper’s Magazine) – What were we if not obsessive-compulsive, we who so often traced our origins to a people whose very name, the Puritans, epitomized the perfectionistic delusion underlying this illness? A people so committed to virtue that they’d risked … Read More
June 24, 2025
From the pandemic to porn, here’s how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z
(NPR) – When the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, the ruling didn’t just eliminate the federal right to abortion; it also ushered in “a generational change in the way that people approach sex,” journalist Carter Sherman says. … Read More
June 19, 2025
The unseen
(Aeon) – Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being Instead, pundits and policymakers are applying the word ‘loneliness’ to address a real and growing … Read More
June 6, 2025
The Plastic Surgery Procedure Booming Among Washington Men
(Politico) – The surgeons and dermatologists who treat the D.C. power class will never share their patients’ secrets; some doctors strategically time surgeries during congressional recess, and many go out of their way to make sure their clients aren’t even … Read More
June 2, 2025
Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?
(New York Times) — When Canada’s first MAID law, Bill C-14, passed in 2016, it was reserved for those who were over 18, eligible for health care and mentally competent to consent to death. They needed to have a “serious … Read More
June 2, 2025
Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water
(The Guardian) — Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in menstrual … Read More
June 2, 2025
Outrage over Democrat state’s sneaky attempt to quietly pass assisted suicide bill
(Daily Mail) — A controversial amendment allowing assisted suicide is making its way through the Illinois state legislature as representatives snuck the measure into a bill on sanitary food preparation. Illinois House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, a Democrat representing Evanston, … Read More
May 29, 2025
We Made a Film With AI. You’ll Be Blown Away—and Freaked Out.
(Wall Street Journal) – We tried to direct an AI film with Veo and Runway. The tools are magic. The process is madness. Welcome to the premiere of “My Robot & Me.” Please silence your phones, chew your popcorn quietly … Read More
May 1, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 14, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 25, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 13, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 14, 2025
The Movie Her Predicted Life in 2025. It Feels Haunting to Watch Today.
(Slate) – More than a decade later, the movie’s message isn’t what I remembered—and it’s way more unnerving than I expected. We’ve all been Theo and we’ve all been her. Idealizing the perfect relationship but never quite facing ourselves to … Read More
April 7, 2025
A New Edition of Christian Bioethics Is Now Available
Christian Bioethics (vol. 31, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 21, 2025
This ‘Wicked’ Broadway Actor Is Making History for Performers with Disabilities
(NBCU) – In March, Jenna Bainbridge will be the first wheelchair user to play the role of Nessarose in “Wicked” on Broadway. Her announcement comes months after Marisa Bode, who also uses a wheelchair in real life, portrayed Nessa in … Read More
