Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC

Gideon Haigh

Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' is the self-amused, morally weightless salute of one hollow showman for another. Perhaps it is no better than Trump's cruel, mendacious and vituperative administration deserve.

Brandon Terry

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King's intellectual, ethical and political commitments.

Margaret Atwood

The #MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. All too frequently, women and other sexual-abuse complainants couldn't get a fair hearing through institutions - including corporate structures - so they used a new tool: the internet. Stars fell from the skies. This has been very effective, and has been seen as a massive wake-up call. But what next? The legal system can be fixed, or our society could dispose of it. Institutions, corporations and workplaces can houseclean, or they can expect more stars to fall, and also a lot of asteroids.

Gilbert Meilaender

The goods of life are not easily reconciled, and evil may be done with great dignity and appeal - done even bravely and sacrificially by those we can hardly help but admire.

Emma Green

Since its founding, Israel has had to negotiate its dual identity as a democracy and as the world's only Jewish-majority state. Netanyahu has long referred to the migrants as "infiltrators," claiming that they pose a threat to the state. And many of the migrants' neighbours in South Tel Aviv complain that the area has become overcrowded and crime-ridden since the newcomers arrived. Yet, advocates argue, Jewish identity should be built on values and ethics, not just membership in a tribe. What, they say, could be more Jewish - and more faithful to the history of Israel - than welcoming the stranger?