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Ethics Is Not a Feeling — An Interview With Julian Savulescu

Should you pay people to get vaccinated? Can organ markets be ethical? Is there a drug that could make us morally better? Julian Savulescu doesn't ask these questions to provoke. He asks them because he thinks the answers matter — and because most people are too uncomfortable to try.

Should Journalism Take Sides?

The usual way of framing journalistic neutrality is wrong. Reporting is never neutral: every choice — what to cover, which words to use, whose voices to include — already takes a side. Objectivity isn’t absence of perspective, but clarity about where that perspective comes from.