The Scales of Ma'at
Virtue, justice, bioethics, and the moral questions new technology keeps forcing on us faster than our institutions can answer them. Named for the ancient measure of a life weighed against truth, this wing is where the corpus takes a side.
Eighty-Five Seconds to Midnight: The Ethics of the Bomb
Deterrence works only if we sincerely intend to do the one thing that could never be justified. The bomb's moral paradox, the Clock at 85 seconds, and the argument neither side has won.
The First Scales: How Every Civilization Found the Same Rules
From Egyptian Ma'at to Confucius to Ubuntu, civilizations that never met wrote down the same rule. Here is that convergence, its real flaws, and the honest limit of what it proves.
The Glass Panopticon: The Ethics of Being Watched
Bentham's unbuilt prison became the architecture of the smartphone age. What being watched does to us, the reality behind China's 'social credit,' and why the debate is not as settled as either side claims.
The Greatest Good: Morality as Arithmetic
Bentham tried to turn right and wrong into a calculation. The trolley problem is what happens when the math meets a human. Utilitarianism's real power, and its serious unresolved flaws.
The Nuremberg Code: Consent Written in Catastrophe
Ten rules written into the verdict against the Nazi doctors, the first that consent is 'absolutely essential.' Why the Code was never law, why it did not stop Tuskegee, and why consent is harder than a signature.