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The A2Ethics.org Endowment Fund: Giving Ethics a Permanent Future

Our listeners are often interested  learning about the career pathways of the individuals we talk with, so we asked Professor Munro to share some professional and personal mileposts during his distinguished career. We also asked him to outline his current academic interests. He kindly took us up, and we are very happy he did. Moreover, we are glad Professor Munro mentioned his wife Ann.

What was the spark for the first Big Ethical Question Slam? At A2Ethics.org, we are tired of people slamming ethics. We are concerned that ethics is given top billing by our leaders, but is treated like an extracurricular program in our educational institutions, or regarded as just another field that has to justify its existence as a job provider or of economic value. So, we started a different kind of ethics slam. The Big Ethical Question Slam. We want to give ethics its due. Its own show. Never mind its economic value.

The second A2Ethics.org Ethics Without Borders on global education issues featured Bede Sheppard, the senior researcher in the children's rights division of Human Rights Watch. Bede's keynote speech on the disturbing and growing problem of schools considered as battlegrounds in conflict-affected regions left us with much to think about and with much more to do to help publicize the work of Bede and his colleagues.

BY MZ. MANNERS, VIGILANTE GUERILLA

If you're in trouble and no one else can help, you might as well contact us here at a2ethics.org. The A-Team returns to the cultural slopbucket, part of a delicious trough of strange summer entertainment. A group of veterans who are part of an elite unit go underground, become a mean, clever band of vigilante pranksters, and solve the major problems in society. The A-Team, ethically speaking, is problematic.

By BARCODE 2x

The new Robin Hood is released this weekend, and he takes on a broader political agenda that will satisfy a very divided audience base. In Ridley Scott's new telling of the old British vigilante's beginnings, Robin Hood is less interested in robbing the rich and giving to the poor than he is in alleviating tax burdens. Is this the changing face of vigilantism?