In May 2001, Torontonians were scandalized when three young Canadian artists videotaped themselves torturing and butchering a stray cat as part of a muddled commentary on the meat-processing industry.

Regular readers of this column will know that I am a huge fan of casuistry, which got a bad name during the Protestant Reformation, but remains a quintessentially Christian way of applying legal ...

Morgan points out that people are supposed to see proceedings as 'an equation that derives guilty or innocence from the legal information entered,' and forget that there is another way to pursue ...

Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, the author of several best-selling books and the host of the podcast “Revisionist History.” In a three-part series on the podcast, he takes a ...

A man and a woman both show up to the same workplace on the same day. They are dressed identically, in the same dress and same high heels. You wouldn’t send home the woman dressing as a woman. So then ...

A notorious Toronto case of feline torture and execution is analyzed in aptly queasy "Casuistry." Animal rights activists' outcries, dislikable perps' hanging trial by public opinion, and the murky ...

Generally, the whole lot get a chance to speak their minds, to contextualize the events, and most come off as completely awful people, from either side of the issue. In the end, this alone makes for ...