THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house
June 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house
"So what do you call this act?"
"The Ethicist!"
"The Ethicist!"
June 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"So what do you call this act?"
"The Ethicist!"
"The Ethicist!"
you've got to assume an ethics expert is troubled almost all the time. although it would be pretty cool not to be. "the blasé ethicist"
RFK Jr. took $4 million in book advances and $270,000 in gifts from close allies working to advance his agenda. His wife received $210,000 in consulting fees from a MAHA group. Ethics experts are troubled. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social Jewett
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
RFK Jr. Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA (Gift Article)
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2026 at 1:35 AM
you've got to assume an ethics expert is troubled almost all the time. although it would be pretty cool not to be. "the blasé ethicist"
The Ethicist | I don't feel like paying the Guatemalan immigrants who roofed by house. Can I just have ICE deport them?
March 28, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The Ethicist | I don't feel like paying the Guatemalan immigrants who roofed by house. Can I just have ICE deport them?
The Ethicist | I only voted for Trump for the racial stuff. How do I get an exemption from the tariffs and vaccine bans?
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Ethicist | I only voted for Trump for the racial stuff. How do I get an exemption from the tariffs and vaccine bans?
Which is, if you've been keeping track, NOT GOOD.
So when people are like "how could this happen, there are good people in this space," or make the ethicist objection, I want y'all to remember that good people are responsible for terrible things and being an ethicist doesn't make you good.
So when people are like "how could this happen, there are good people in this space," or make the ethicist objection, I want y'all to remember that good people are responsible for terrible things and being an ethicist doesn't make you good.
September 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Which is, if you've been keeping track, NOT GOOD.
So when people are like "how could this happen, there are good people in this space," or make the ethicist objection, I want y'all to remember that good people are responsible for terrible things and being an ethicist doesn't make you good.
So when people are like "how could this happen, there are good people in this space," or make the ethicist objection, I want y'all to remember that good people are responsible for terrible things and being an ethicist doesn't make you good.
The Ethicist | We desperately want to get our son to quit drinking. Is there any way we can get Trump to nominate him to be Secretary of Defense?
December 5, 2024 at 12:10 PM
The Ethicist | We desperately want to get our son to quit drinking. Is there any way we can get Trump to nominate him to be Secretary of Defense?
The Ethicist | My Venezuelan wife is being a real pain in the neck. Is it ok if I turn her over to ICE?
March 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Ethicist | My Venezuelan wife is being a real pain in the neck. Is it ok if I turn her over to ICE?
The Ethicist | I bet my immigrant wife $1000 that ICE wouldn't deport her. Do I have to pay up, given that she is now in El Salvador?
February 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The Ethicist | I bet my immigrant wife $1000 that ICE wouldn't deport her. Do I have to pay up, given that she is now in El Salvador?
The Ethicist | My mail order trad wife found my Grindr account and is threatening to tell my right-wing podcast’s sponsors about it. Should I ask ICE to deport her?
April 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The Ethicist | My mail order trad wife found my Grindr account and is threatening to tell my right-wing podcast’s sponsors about it. Should I ask ICE to deport her?
The Ethicist | We pretended to be foreign to game our son's way into Harvard. How do we reveal that we're American so he can stay enrolled?
May 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Ethicist | We pretended to be foreign to game our son's way into Harvard. How do we reveal that we're American so he can stay enrolled?
i am america's foremost ai ethicist, my verdict is it's all stinky
July 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
i am america's foremost ai ethicist, my verdict is it's all stinky
The Ethicist | Our nanny is Black, but she is not an American descendent of slavery. Is it ok to make her work on Monday?
January 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The Ethicist | Our nanny is Black, but she is not an American descendent of slavery. Is it ok to make her work on Monday?
The Ethicist | I don't support child abuse in any way; I voted for Trump based purely on racial resentment. How do I respond to people who are jeering me as a "pedo lover"?
July 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The Ethicist | I don't support child abuse in any way; I voted for Trump based purely on racial resentment. How do I respond to people who are jeering me as a "pedo lover"?
The Ethicist | I lost a lot of money on Polymarket because a reporter refused to repeat a false claim about Iranian missiles. Can I kill him?
March 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Ethicist | I lost a lot of money on Polymarket because a reporter refused to repeat a false claim about Iranian missiles. Can I kill him?
The Ethicist | I'm an American podcaster who gets paid in rubles. If that currency continues to drop in value, can I lower my declared income on my taxes?
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Ethicist | I'm an American podcaster who gets paid in rubles. If that currency continues to drop in value, can I lower my declared income on my taxes?
As a professional ethicist, I implore you:
BE UNGOVERNABLE!
BE UNGOVERNABLE!
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM
As a professional ethicist, I implore you:
BE UNGOVERNABLE!
BE UNGOVERNABLE!
The Ethicist | I'm going to a party held by some friends who have young children. Is it still ok to snort cocaine off their toilet seat?
February 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The Ethicist | I'm going to a party held by some friends who have young children. Is it still ok to snort cocaine off their toilet seat?
The Ethicist | I missed my chance to report my annoying co-worker for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk. Can I now report her for failing to watch the Melania documentary?
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 AM
The Ethicist | I missed my chance to report my annoying co-worker for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk. Can I now report her for failing to watch the Melania documentary?
shame on all the people suggesting that noted ethicist and Riyadh comedy festival icon Dave Chappelle would do something shitty just for a quick buck
April 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
shame on all the people suggesting that noted ethicist and Riyadh comedy festival icon Dave Chappelle would do something shitty just for a quick buck
The Ethicist
February 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Ethicist
Peter Singer really is a horrible horrible ethicist
If I catch even a whiff of you defending any part of Singers work you’ll be blocked. Probably unfairly! But he thinks the world would be a happier place if we had murdered our son after he was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome. So I don’t feel like being fair.
August 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Peter Singer really is a horrible horrible ethicist
Gene Roddenberry:
February 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Gene Roddenberry:
The Ethicist | We want to fire our gardener but hate confrontation. Is it okay if we just take a photo of him in a Chicago Bulls hat and send it to ICE?
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Ethicist | We want to fire our gardener but hate confrontation. Is it okay if we just take a photo of him in a Chicago Bulls hat and send it to ICE?
Ethicist here: it is not impossible.
one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here
#BrokenTimes: "Republicans have taken a different tack.... It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged"
July 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Ethicist here: it is not impossible.