I looked up the definition of altruism this week after I read Emily Royalty’s story this week on the Westford Charitable Foundation, founded by Lori and Herb Cogliano. It means, “the principle or ...

In a few short years, effective altruism has become the giving philosophy for many Silicon Valley programmers, hedge funders and even tech billionaires. By Nicholas Kulish When Elon Musk’s text ...

How to achieve the most good in the world is a question that should occupy all our imaginations: a response to Lisa Herzog. Lisa Herzog’s recent article for OpenDemocracy presents several arguments ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).