The most common and most cogent argument against capital punishment is that sooner or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice system.

When McDonald’s pledged in September 2015 to use cage-free eggs in all of its restaurants in the next decade, it came as no surprise to Calvin philosophy professor Matt Halteman. Not because he’s a ...

Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming ...

How do you persuade the whole world to stop eating meat? I have been trying for half a century. My book Animal Liberation was published in 1975, when I was 29 years old. I argued that our treatment of ...

Demonstrators hold signs with the faces of US Supreme Court Justices during an abortion-rights protest in New York, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Stephanie Keith / Bloomberg via Getty Images) By signing ...

After Gov. Paterson announced his plan to implement far-reaching ethics reforms in Albany, the state Senate released its own pared down ethics reform proposal yesterday. The lawmakers' plan would ...