Mike Hassell

Monetarism emerged in the 1960s under the leadership of Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976. Friedman taught at the University of Chicago...

Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital during the late industrial revolution, as Europe underwent a wrenching transformation from an agricultural to an industrial...

Some thirty to forty percent of Africans practice traditional religions, many of which survived transportation into the West with the slave trade by...

Buddhism began with Gotama the Buddha in the sixth century BCE and has developed two chief forms. Theravada (or Hinayana) is found especially in Sri Lanka,...

In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a...

Drugs and alcohol involve personal habits that have significant social consequences. Some have said that we are a society of drinkers and pill takers; much...

For most of human history, killing animals presented few moral problems; they seemed made for our use. But the rapid growth and increasing dominance of human...

The beginning and ending of life are deeply controversial moral topics with enormous stakes. Most people agree that it is wrong to kill humansbut are...

Only a few hundred years ago there emerged the ideal of inalienable rights to life, liberty, property, free speech, freedom of conscience and religion, etc....

Most people think it's wrong to lie, but sometimes telling the truth seems more hurtful than lying. Secrecy protects the truth and maintains our privacy, but...

Popular culture usually represents love in physical or sexual terms; our society has been ';liberated' in that premarital sex (and in some cases even...

Concern for others is the basis of human decency; without it, our communities are increasingly degraded by selfishness and corruption. Some think that crime...

Frank Knight (18851972) fathered the famous Chicago School of Economics, whose members are among the most decorated in history. An abstract theorist, Knight...

Christianity arose within the social and spiritual dislocation of the Roman Empire. Jesus, perceived by authorities as a threat to public stability, was...

Punishment involves authority and the exercise of power by one or more humans over another, usually to preserve order and security. But any understanding of...

Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons...

Thailand, Laos, and Burma have been known as the ';Golden Triangle' because of their historically prominent role in the drug trade. For centuries, these...

Moral problems are unique to humans, and moral awareness is a fundamental aspect of the human experience. Yet questions continue about whether morals are...

Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, ';absolute' framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth...