A Tragedy for the World: The End of the New START Treaty and What Comes Next
A Tragedy for the World: The End of the New START Treaty and What Comes Next by John Whitehead The New START Treaty, an important nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, expired on February 5th, 2026. Although the Russian government offered to maintain the treaty’s limits on nuclear weapons for at…
Problems with the Demand-Side Pro-Life Arguments for Making Abortion Unwanted but Not Illegal
by Jacqueline Abernathy, Ph.D. MSSW Supply Produces Demand As the United States approaches the 2026 election, pro-life (particularly anti-abortion) voters are faced with the same false dichotomy: vote Republican in order not to exacerbate the unjust social and economic conditions that drive abortion demand, or vote Democrat to reduce demand while safeguarding the supply of…
Baby Hitler
by Rachel MacNair There’s a “thought experiment” prevalent enough to have its own Wikipedia entry: if you had a time machine and could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a baby, on the idea that millions of killings would thus be prevented, would you do it? In 2015, The New York…
Exploring Moral Courage and the Responsibility to Protect Life in Fiction and Beyond
by Nathanial John When Courage Is Not Loud We are often conditioned to think of courage as something explosive—battles won, villains defeated, lives saved in the final moments. Yet, some of the bravest decisions in human history are quiet. They happen in isolation, in secrecy, and often without applause. Moral courage is not the kind…