Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will
By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]
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Women vs. Machines
By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]
Can Virtual Reality Prevent Pedophiles from Harming Children in Real Life?
By Cecilia D’Anastasio Broadly Growing up, Camryn had always considered his taste in women particular: short, flat-chested, youthful. The girls he had liked in high school were smaller in stature, a […]
Punishment’s Purpose: How Humans Became Hardwired for Justice
By Morris B. Hoffman Reuters One of the positive things about the media frenzy over cases like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Aurora Theater shooting is that these types […]
Who Lives and Who Dies
By Paul Farmer London Review of Books What is it like to be a passenger on a bus, or standing in a cheering crowd at the finishing line of a […]
