Ethics in the real world: 82 brief essays on things that matter

Big questions. The value of a pale blue dot ; Does anything matter? ; Is there moral progress? ; God and suffering, again ; Godless morality / with Marc Hauser ; Are we ready for a "morality pill?" / with Agata Sagan ; The quality of mercy ; Thinking about the dead ; Should this be the last generation? ; Philosophy on top

Animals. Europe's ethical eggs ; If fish could scream ; Cultural bias against whaling? ; A case for veganism ; Consider the turkey: thoughts for thanksgiving ; In vitro meat ; Chimpanzees are people, too ; The cow who ...

Beyond the ethic of the sanctity of life. The real abortion tragedy ; Treating (or not) the tiniest babies ; Pulling back the curtain on the mercy killing of newborns ; No diseases for old men ; When doctors kill ; Choosing death ; Dying in court

Bioethics and public health. The human genome and the genetic supermarket ; The year of the clone? ; Kidneys for sale? The many crises of health care ; Public health versus private freedom ; Weigh more, pay more ; Should we live to 1,000? ; Population and the Pope

Sex and gender. Should adult sibling incest be a crime? ; Homosexuality is not immoral ; Virtual vices ; A private affair? ; How much should sex matter? / with Agata Sagan ; God and woman in Iran

Doing good. The one-percent solution ; Holding charities accountable ; Blatant benevolence ; Good charity, bad charity ; Heartwarming causes are nice, but let's give to charity with our heads ; The ethical cost of high-price art ; Preventing human extinction / with Nick Beckstead and Matt Wage

Happiness. Happiness, money, and giving it away ; Can we increase gross national happiness? ; The high cost of feeling low ; No smile limit ; Happy, nevertheless

Politics. Bentham's fallacies, then and now ; The founding fathers' fiscal crisis ; Why vote? ; Free speech, Muhammad, and the Holocaust ; The use and abuse of religious freedom ; An honest man? ; Is citizenship a right? ; The spying game ; A statue for Stalin? ; Should we honor racists?

Global governance. Escaping the refugee crisis ; Is open diplomacy possible? ; The ethics of big food ; Fairness and climate change / with Teng Fei ; Will the polluters pay for climate change? ; Why are they serving meat at a climate change conference? / with Frances Kissling ; Dethroning king coal ; Paris and the fate of the earth

Science and technology. A clear case for golden rice ; Life made to order ; Rights for robots? / with Agata Sagan ; A dream for the digital age ; A universal library ; The tragic cost of being unscientific

Living, playing, working : How to keep a New Year's resolution ; Why pay more? ; Tiger mothers or elephant mothers? ; Volkswagen and the future of honesty ; Is doping wrong? ; Is it OK to cheat at football? ; A surfing reflection.