A Philosopher's Blog

God & Rape: The Problem of Evil Way back in 2012, Republican Richard Mourdock said he believed that abortion is acceptable only to save the life of the mother. Then

Each Sunday I toss my neighbor’s paper down the steep steps from her driveway to her door. During one toss, I saw that Peanuts was still appearing as a Sunday

While there have been improvements in the gender pay gap, women still generally lag behind men. In the United States, the median income for women workers is 81-83% of that

Since most of the earth’s surface is covered in water it seems odd to be worried about the availability of water. But this seems less odd when we remember that

The euphemism “right to work” is a useful rhetorical tool beloved by anti-labor politicians. A euphemism is substituting a positive or innocuous term for a more negative one.  It is like

Across the United States, public education has been under consistent assault. K-20 budgets have been cut, teachers’ unions have been attacked, political agendas have been pushed onto education, and educators

Many years ago, I was running with another professor, and we talked about how public university faculty in Florida usually have nine-month contracts and are effectively unemployed in the summer.

Taking a moral position comes with a price. Or, more accurately, prices.  The cost of holding a position and the cost of acting upon it are usually different prices.  There