Saint Louis University | Ethics Across the Curriculum

America Magazine

The director of Ethics Across the Curriculum is a regular columnist for America Magazine. His "Ethics Notebook" column has frequently been honored by the National Catholic Press Association. For access to his columns, ranging from topics like the Iraq War religion and politics, consumer capitalism to stem cell research, see below...

Stem Cell Secrets	Millitant Madness
A Pro-Choice War	Unjust War Good Outcomes
Sex. War.	Cheaters The personal and corporate costs of academic dishonesty.
Consuming Children The high personal costs in Capitalism and its formation of youth.	Time and Transcendence Mother Teresa and Christopher Hitchens at Christmas.
Election Year Economics Will the crisis in Health Care, having been ignored in 2004, be ignored once again?	Voting Conscience A reflection prior to the 2004 presidential election and possible harbinger of things to come.
Artificial Feeding The pope's argument rests on human rights. Why can't we see that?	Citizenship in a Secular Society The Catholic Conscience in National Politics
The Values Vote Evey part of life is a moral arena.	The Ocean of Life A reflection on the Tsunami and Providence.
Repentance On the Difficulty of Admitting Guilt.	Self Hating Humanity The Flight from Human Contingency.
Self-Hating Humanity? The New Man, the man who will not die, the artificial man	Fog Over Iraq You break it; you own it.
Leftover Embryos T his is not junk science.	Consuming Life Capitalism may eat us up.
Brainism We are not our brains; we are embodied persons.	Tortuous Thoughts Is there any evil you would not do in the name of defeating evil?
The Muslim Mystery The challenge of an uncertain future.	Cloning, by Whatever Name, Smells Bad We must offer a positive alternative.
Descent Into Hell War is at best barbarism.	Labor's Love Lost Some day we will pay for this orgy of capitalist incontinence.
Realistic Politics The fire of fear is being stoked.	Alien or Allied Muslims? Both sides invoke the name of God.
Cloning for Missouri At issue was scientific integrity, not religious fanaticism.	Autonomous Individualism With the will unconstrained, there cojmes a blowback.
Iraq Now. Iran Next? Maybe people like you and me have to do something more.