ethics

Teaching Empathy and Compassion Can Transform the World

Can we be taught to care more about our fellow humans? Christina Patterson joins the scientists and thinkers who believe a true understanding of empathy could transform the world we live in

by Christiana Patterson

"Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"

The above illustration was for an issue of The Baffler, an issue about how journalism has become profit-driven, and now delivers news people want to hear, rather than what is actually going on

by Barbara Kaufmann

Why Warfare? Lessons from the Past

 

 by Steven A. LeBlanc

Steven A. LeBlanc is director of collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (1999), Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (2003), and Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest (2004).