Effective altruism, which started as a small movement at Oxford University over a decade ago, is an influential and controversial philosophy backed by billionaires—including Facebook co-founder Dustin ...

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan once considered herself an effective altruist. As a college student in India, she immersed herself in the social movement, reading its canonical texts like Doing Good Better, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have long witnessed altruism in the animal kingdom, but a new study finds not all acts ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

Akshat Jain is a writer, columnist, novelist, blogger, and a research scholar. He has authored books and wrote many articles, white papers on different ideas and genres. Altruism refers to the ...

Do you see yourself as an altruistic person? Here’s a test to find out. Assuming you're a healthy person, you have two kidneys but only need one. In your country, there are thousands of chronically ...

You don’t hear so much about effective altruism now that one of its most famous exponents, Sam Bankman-Fried, was found guilty of stealing $8 billion from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange.

Bajekal is a British-Indian writer and editor based in New York. She was previously executive editor and international editor at TIME. Thirteen years ago, William MacAskill found himself standing in ...

How to achieve the most good in the world is a question that should occupy all our imaginations: a response to Lisa Herzog. Lisa Herzog’s recent article for OpenDemocracy presents several arguments ...