OCT 31, 2013 • News
Michael Ignatieff Presents Inaugural Lecture for Washington and Lee University's Mudd Center for Ethics
What role should democratic deliberation play in decisions about whether or not to engage in human-rights interventions? In the inaugural lecture of Washington and Lee ...
OCT 30, 2013 • Podcast
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
"America has strayed pretty far from the pioneer spirit captured by Willa Cather and the movie 'Shane,'" says Nobel Prize-winner Edmund Phelps. What happened? ...
OCT 30, 2013 • News
Corporators, Youth Join Hands to Clean up Bangalore
Global Ethics Fellow Rajeev Gowda's Civic Action Internship programme was featured in an article on "DnaIndia.com." Interns celebrated Gowda's birthday by cleaning up Frazer ...
OCT 28, 2013 • Article
A Letter to Andrew Carnegie on the Eve of the Council's Centennial
From our vantage point 100 years on, Andrew Carnegie got some things right and others wrong; but the core issue remains the same. "Today's Carnegie Council ...
OCT 28, 2013 • News
Joel Rosenthal Awarded Honorary Degree by University of Edinburgh
In October 2013, Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in Social Sciences from the University of Edinburgh. The degree ...
OCT 28, 2013 • Article
The UN's Unprecedented Gamble in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Laurie Mincieli: The Forward Intervention Brigade represents an unprecedented use of the Security Council's Chapter VII peacekeeping mandate, and risks undermining peacekeeping's core tenets of ...
OCT 22, 2013 • News
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Use Performance Enhancing Drugs?
Should athletes be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs? In this "BMJ" Head to Head feature, bioethicist and Global Ethics Fellow Julian Savulescu argues that ...
OCT 21, 2013 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Iron Man 3"
So what can a blockbuster movie about a superhero tell us about current American attitudes towards U.S. foreign policy, PTSD, racial stereotypes, the War ...