When is a creature deemed alive enough for people to experience an ethical dilemma if it is distressed?
Dalton Conley
Dalton Conley is university professor and dean for the social sciences at New York University. He is author of Elsewhere U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety.
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Don’t Blame the Billionaires
It’s time for liberals to worry less about inequality.
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Behind Fortune’s Smile
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest mixes some insights from social science with some compelling anecdotes. Unfortunately, the plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”
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Dream On
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare By Jason DeParle • Viking • PAGES • $25.95 Remarkably little has been heard about the poor from the Bush administration during the past four years. The administration has focused more on rewarding its base — “the haves and the have-mores” […]