The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s hypocritical for a liberal to socialize with an increasingly extreme conservative.
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Tag Archives: Ethics (Personal)
Can I Ask Co-Workers if They’ve Had the Covid Vaccine?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why asking about vaccine status isn’t a question of etiquette but of public health.
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Is It OK to Ask Health Care Providers if They’re Vaccinated?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on navigating a world in which vaccination against Covid-19 is both common and contested.
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A Complaint Against Liberal Modernity, and a Solution: Faith
In “The Unbroken Thread,” Sohrab Ahmari sees Western society as having overreached on freedom and lost a sense of rootedness in tradition and community.
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What Pop Stoicism Misses About Ancient Philosophy
It’s not about self-improvement. It’s about being a good member of society.
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I’m Pro-Choice. Can I Donate to Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Clinics?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to weigh doing good against the beliefs of the do-gooder and becoming a godmother without being a Catholic.
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YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on dealing with a parent radicalized by a recommendation engine and whether to cut off a friend who has joined a cult.
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Is It OK to Use Money Raised for a Child’s Cancer Care on a Car?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the limits of GoFundMe, whether to identify as L.G.B.T.Q. and unequal inheritances.
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My Child’s Egg Donor Is Latin American. Does That Make Him Latino?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what forms our identity and the importance of informed consent to medical procedures.
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A Hygienist Had Covid. Shouldn’t My Dentist Have Told Me?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing health care providers’ privacy against patients’ concerns, creating an equitable vaccine system and more.
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I’m Realizing My Friends Are Racist. What Should I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to respond when longstanding friends reveal their prejudices — and more.
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Hunting for a Leftover Vaccine? This Site Will Match You With a Clinic.
More than half a million people have signed up for Dr. B, a service that promises to match them with clinics struggling to equitably dole out extra doses before they expire.
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I Don’t Trust Police Testimony. Can I Lie to Get on a Jury?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how far one should go to participate in the judicial process.
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Should I Get a Covid-19 Vaccine When Others Need It More?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what should determine eligibility for the Covid-19 vaccine and more.
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My Patients Need Me. Can I Quit?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on placing family above work despite the pandemic and becoming a volunteer in order to get the Covid-19 vaccine sooner.
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How Getting Canceled on Social Media Can Derail a Book Deal
Morals clauses are despised by many authors and agents, but big publishers insist that they need a way out if a writer’s reputation takes a nosedive.
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A Friend Shot a Biting Dog. I’m in Shock. What Should I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on choosing a humane end for a pet and what to do with P.P.P. loan money you turned out not to need.
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Crossing State Lines for a Covid Vaccine
With no nationwide plan for distributing coronavirus vaccines, people are scrambling to other states. Some health officials, saying greater immunity is the goal, aren’t standing in the way.
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Am I Being Unkind by Rejecting My Father’s Gifts?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on feeling uncomfortable with giving money as a sign of love and the obligation to report a doctor’s incompetence.
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Yes, Jumping the Covid Vaccine Line Matters
When hospital administrators and politicians’ spouses get immunized before people more at risk, it undermines confidence in the system.
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Ethicists Say to Take the Covid-19 Vaccine if You Can
Declining a Covid-19 shot because you think it should go to someone else won’t help anyone.
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Should I Warn My Ex’s Fiancée About His Cheating Heart?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on telling your ex’s fiancée that he betrayed her, absconding with a valuable letter discovered in a rental home — and more.
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Trump and Friends Got Coronavirus Care Many Others Couldn’t
Rudolph W. Giuliani became the latest in President Trump’s inner circle to boast about the treatment he received for Covid-19, as hospitals across the country ration care.
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What Do I Owe to an Impoverished Villager I Befriended Abroad?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether we have a duty of charity to individuals — and more.
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Should I Stop Speaking to My Trump-Supporting Friends?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on ending friendships with those who back the president, identifying as L.G.B.T.Q. on medical-school applications — and more.
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My Girlfriend Wants to Play Tennis Indoors Despite the Pandemic
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing the risk of infection against what you owe your partner — and more.
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Life (and Death) Without God
The philosopher Todd May is an atheist who rejects the supernatural, but not the people who believe in it.
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Biden and Trump Say They’re Fighting for America’s ‘Soul.’ What Does That Mean?
The election has become a referendum on the soul of the nation.
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What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Our Reactions to Trump’s Illness
The impulse to wish harm on others may come naturally, but that doesn’t make it right.
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What My Covid-19 Hallucination Showed Me
It all began with an endless gray tunnel. And ended with a vision of how to rebuild our lives.
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I’m a Liberal in Alabama. Here’s What It’s Like Campaigning for Doug Jones.
As a liberal in the Deep South, I am in the minority, but I persist.
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Trump’s Coronavirus Response Was Beyond Incompetent
He wasn’t oblivious to the danger. He just didn’t care.
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As a University Spokesman, Can I Promote a Reopening Plan I Question?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you believe an employer is putting financial concerns ahead of health and safety — and more.
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Is It OK That I Haven’t Told My Parents I Was Fired?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why it can be hard to tell family you’ve lost your job, whether to collect unemployment benefits and more.
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Covid-19 Testing Is in Short Supply. Should You Still Get a Test?
Public health officials once suggested only people with symptoms should be tested. Now some say getting one is a civic duty.
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Don’t Fear Dying. Fear Violence.
Why do millions of practitioners of the Jain religion strive to avoid harming even microscopic creatures?
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Can My Boss Make Me Promise I Don’t Have Covid-19 Symptoms?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing workplace safety against personal privacy, and more.
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Should I Call the Cops on My Stepson?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on calling the cops when you think your stepson has a drug addiction, giving your sibling money — and more.
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Putting a Dollar Value on Life? Governments Already Do
Trade-offs are routine in health policy, and the math and analysis underlying them have been around for decades.
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My Brother Isn’t Raising His Child Right. Should I Speak Up?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on voicing concerns to a sibling about how he brings up his child and to officemates who embrace coronavirus conspiracies.
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The Coronavirus Vaccine May Have a Shortcut: Infecting Volunteers
Should we take it?
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We Can Make the Post-Pandemic World a Better Place
Our obligations to one another won’t end when this crisis does.
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How Do I Deal With a Friend Who Thinks Covid-19 Is a Hoax?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when a friend believes the coronavirus pandemic is a worldwide conspiracy — and more.
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When Duty Calls, and Menaces
Amid the cheers of gratitude, a painful debate is brewing as doctors grapple with whether to join the front lines of a pandemic.
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My Roommate’s Boyfriend Still Visits Despite the Outbreak. Can I Object?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when your roommate doesn’t understand that practicing social distancing means not seeing her boyfriend.
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Our Cruel Treatment of Animals Led to the Coronavirus
The conditions that lead to the emergence of new infectious diseases are the same ones that inflict horrific harms on animals.
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