Cheating Students: How Our Schools Fail the Humanistic Vision of Education
Students cheat in high school. In fact, a lot of high school students cheat routinely. A 2010 study conducted by the Josephson Institute of Ethics found that at least 59 percent of high school students... Read More
Rethinking Drug Policy Assumptions
The so-called war on drugs has lasted more than four decades and increasing numbers of people are convinced that it is not only unwinnable but also misguided. From foreign policy to domestic policy to drug... Read More
Prohibition & Humanism
"Pot’s Legal!" declared the Seattle Times in large print on November 7, 2012, while that same day the Denver Post ran the headline: “FIRED UP.” As two states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana,... Read More
Teaching Criminology to Prison Inmates
Fourteen men—age thirty to sixty and clad in white, serving prison terms ranging from ten to thirty years for violent crimes—sit in a classroom discussing crime and punishment. When asked if they are willing to... Read More
An Unholy Alliance Private Prisons and the Christian Right
This article is cross-posted on Friendly Atheist blog. Imagine, if you will, a meeting of the CEOs, board members, and stockholders of all the for-profit prison corporations in the United States. The CEOs unanimously agree... Read More
Experiments of Living
Throughout recorded history, ethical ideas have usually been traced to authorities. Most of the supposed authorities have been religious people, typically men who have claimed, or who have been credited with, a special mode of... Read More
Speaking Prose All Our Lives
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Oh, really? So when I say: Nicole bring me my slippers and fetch my nightcap,” is that prose? PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Most clearly. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Well, what do you know about that! These forty... Read More