Read “The Problem of Evil” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

See the website for the Stanford Prison Experiment, a classic simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment conducted at Stanford University in 1971. Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo wanted to see under what conditions ordinary people — in this case, volunteers who agreed to play guards or prisoners — would perceive others as less than human […]

Benjamin Chavis Muhammad lead the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, a nonprofit founded in 2001 to use hiphop as a catalyst for improving society and addressing poverty and injustice. Contact through Jody L. Miller.

Read a Feb. 8, 2005, New York Times article posted by the web site s8int.com about how the scientific world approaches the concept of evil.

Listen to a National Public Radio segment on the nature of evil from April 8, 1999.

May 28, 2013, News Tribune article about adoption advocates worries over the possible impact on international adoption of a new Missouri law.

Listen to a 12-minute American Public Media audio segment on “The Problem of Evil” from Feb. 15, 2002.

Read a June 13, 2011, New York Times review of British scholar Simon Baron-Cohen’s book, The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty. See also an excerpt of the book.

June 5, 2013, article about a new Michigan law that would speed up the adoption process.