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Sh-Boom, maybe life isn’t a game
We can’t understand what might be special about the regulation of, and ethics within, adversarial institutions unless we can get a clear idea of what analogous non-adversarial versions of those...
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Who needs trade unions?
So far on this blog we have not talked much about the choices between adversarial and non-adversarial relations inside of firms. But this is a great context in which to sharpen our understanding of...
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Red carpet: red in tooth and claw?
[Note: this is the inaugural post by K Listenbee.] Sunday evening was highly anticipated. From the red carpet to the after-parties, the 83rd Academy Awards was a night to remember — as indicated by...
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Race-to-the bottom watch: competitive babies?
This spoof cover from the Onion advertising “How to get your premature babies into the best incubators” presents a comical account of parents anxious to give their children a leg up on the...
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Bubbling up in the Ethics-for-Adversaries lab…
In this blog we have spent a lot of our time with case studies drawn from the “Big 4″ large-scale deliberately adversarial institutions: markets, electoral politics, sports, and the justice system....
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Conflict and Creativity: The Myth of Brainstorming
In a recent New Yorker article, Jonah Lehrer debunks the myth that a conflict-free brainstorming session is the optimal environment to start the flow of creative juices. ‘Brainstorming’ is a method...
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David Brooks on Linsanity and the difference between the morality of religion...
Posted by Wayne David Brooks, the New York Times‘s supposedly conservative columnist, regularly looks to sports as a way of making sense of our political and popular culture. This week he used the...
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Duke Student Government Elections: Students actively avoid adversarial tactics
While national democratic politics are generally adversarial, it turns out democratic politics in the context of student governments at American universities are not. Last week, the Duke Student...
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Gaming the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice
This blog is about to wake up big-time: there’s a new seminar on Adversarial Ethics at Duke full of eager bloggers — and it’s election season in the US. The neverending Presidential-election season...
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Is life just a competitive game?
In adversarial ethics, we need to be able to differentiate institutions that are adversarial from those that are not. But isn’t competition all around? In any social situation we can imagine there are...
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