My review is in the most recent issue of The Philosopher's Magazine.

Interesting list . I like that Random Families , by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, is so close to the top. A lot of stuff on there I haven't re...

Confabulating. That's what we're doing, says psychologist Jonathan Haidt, when we have a strong intuition and try to make up reason...

Interesting how the death of Michael Jackson touches a nerve. I was in a grocery story yesterday when I found out and people were passing t...

As it happens, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk visited my animal rights class the day after I finished reading Zoe Heller's novel The Be...

I notice that the book Does God Hate Women? is catching some flack for its title. Madeleine Bunting, a critic of the "shrill and mili...

The concept of respect seems to resonate with a lot of animal activists. Jane Goodall and Mark Bekoff use the language of respect in 'T...

I just finished watching "I Am an Animal," an HBO video about Ingrid Newkirk and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Gr...

Should we commit random acts of kindness? There's a bumper sticker that says we should. Oprah tells this story (in the "dog...

I'm a little worried about the parenthood books that have been coming out lately. To wit, we've got Bad Mother , by Ayelet Waldman...

...is on the minds of women everywhere. Feminist Philosophers offers suggestions for honoring him and protecting abortion rights here . I w...

The new website for my animal rights class is here .

Gunned down at church, for being an abortion provider. Yes, it isn't pretty, it isn't easy, but millions of women would find their...

This is just a public service announcement. Did you know that the skin of a mango contains urushiol, the ingredient that makes poison ivy p...

Apparently many species of frogs are dying out, not only in the wild, but in zoos. What's causing the problem? Elizabeth Kolbert talks...

Here's the bad thing about being a vegetarian: if you don't consume animal products, you miss out on some of the experience of ...

Postcard from the deep, deep interior of Jeff McMahan's book, The Ethics of Killing ... I'm surprised he's so uncritical of Kan...

The good people at Feminist Philosophers have lately been keeping track of "men's conferences"--philosophy conferences that h...

The semester's over, it's grey and rainy out. I'm reading a long book about death and killing. It's the perfect time for an...

Thought for the day-- " Dr. Laura's" new book In Praise of Mothers has been rattling around in my head for a couple of weeks-...

There's a picture of an animal's life that's just about standard, and even favored by many animal advocates: an animal's li...

Through the wonders of technology, I'm able to see what search terms bring people to this blog, and here's a pattern I've notice...

Horrific story ...and a challenge to anyone who thinks that a fetus, early on, has no moral importance whatever. A pregnant British woman w...

This post is also here . All 300,000 pigs in Egypt are in the process of being slaughtered today —an awfully peculiar strategy for preventin...

The ethical issue about meat-eating concerns the treatment of animals--especially in our new-fangled, intensely bizarre factory farms-- but ...