Peter Singer

Just days after Fordham University’s president Fr. Joseph McShane, S.J.  determined that conservative author Ann Coulter was too “hateful and needlessly provocative” to speak on campus, the University will tomorrow host the pro-infanticide ethicist Peter Singer to speak at a…

After years of international campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM), attention is now turning to the fact that the circumcision of boys, which is a religious precept both for Jews and Muslims, is also a form of “mutilation”. And obviously,…

The controversial bioethicist Peter Singer has received Australia’s highest civil honour. He has been made a Companion of the Order of Australia “for eminent service to philosophy and bioethics as a leader of public debate and communicator of ideas in…