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May reading guide: From heartbreak recipes to Australia’s LGBTQI+ history

From customer experience digitisation to the true history of Australia's lesbian and bisexual women, May's new releases has you covered.

The New Daily · Apr 29, 2023

The worthless life and the worthy death: euthanasia through the ages

Are our moral judgements about euthanasia a product of our time? If we came from a different culture, might our changed views about the worth of life and death lead us to opposite judgements?

The Conversation · Feb 13, 2023

Longtermism: how good intentions and the rich created a dangerous creed

Tech billionaires seem intent on giving away a lot of money. But are those who support ‘longtermism’ and ‘effective altruism’ ignoring the very real problems of today?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Professor at Minnesota's St. Olaf College says he lost leadership post for inviting controversial speaker to campus

MINNEAPOLIS — A St. Olaf College professor tapped to promote debate about "highly controversial subjects" through conversations with guest speakers is being removed from his leadership position a year early, reigniting debate of how colleges handle free speech.

Tribune News Service · May 2, 2022

Academic Freedom Alliance Letter to St. Olaf College

Religion and philosophy professor removed from directing a scholarly center for inviting Peter Singer to give a public lecture.

Reason · Apr 25, 2022

Bias, politics and protests: how human laws constrain and sometimes liberate animals

Guilty Pigs traverses the world of nonhuman animals – and their human owners, guardians, and policy makers – as they brush up against the law in a myriad diverse ways. The book is not jurisdictionally specific, nor is it temporally bound. It is startling in its breadth.

The Conversation · Mar 23, 2022