Peter Singer and Ian Buruma for PS Read More

Parfit, by David Edmonds; Humanity’s Moment, by Joelle Girgis; and more. The PS Say More Newsletter [PS Read More]( In this week's edition of PS Read More, we share recommendations from Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Life You Can Save, and highlight author Ian Buruma's latest work. Peter Singer Recommends... [Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality]( By David Edmonds "Of all the philosophers I have known, Derek Parfit is the one on whom the label 'genius' best fits. When I was a graduate student in Oxford in the early 1970s, Parfit’s seminars set my head buzzing like no other class. When he died in 2017, I was finalizing [Does Anything Really Matter?]( a collection of essays on his last major work, [On What Matters](. Edmonds deserves our gratitude for writing this eminently readable biography of a wonderful philosopher and a most unusual man." [The Pole and Other Stories]( By J.M. Coetzee "That Coetzee writes beautifully, and about issues of substance, is no secret: his Nobel Prize in Literature and two Booker Prizes attest to that. This collection of new short stories raises profound questions about love (romantic and otherwise), aging, and how we relate to animals. It also contains what is surely the most hilarious critique ever written of Heidegger’s view of what distinguishes humans from animals." [Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope]( By Joelle Girgis "A climate scientist, Girgis served as a lead author for the [Sixth Assessment Report]( the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But Humanity’s Moment is not another dry recitation of the damage greenhouse-gas emissions are doing to our planet. Girgis intersperses the science with her personal experience of what it is like to live through what seemed to her like the start of the apocalypse: the hot, dry summer of 2019, when Australia’s ancient Gondwana rainforests burst into flames. Girgis had spent her life retreating to these forests – hitherto too wet to burn – when she needed a break from the stress of her work. But our failure to heed the warnings that she and other scientists had been issuing for decades had led to their destruction." Don't miss Singer's recent Say More interview, in which he considers ordinary Russians’ ethical obligations regarding the Ukraine war, worries that artificial intelligence will undermine the welfare of billions of animals, highlights controversial ideas worth discussing, and more. [Read now](. By a PS Contributor [The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II]( By Ian Buruma Buruma says: "I wrote The Collaborators – which tells the stories of three fantasists who collaborated with the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists during World War II – because I’m interested in how people invent their own lives. Living in imagined realities is a pertinent subject at a time of 'fake news,' TV and Internet media that spread conspiracy theories, and political leaders who are indifferent to the truth." [PS Summer Sale: Save 30% on a new Digital or Digital Plus subscription.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter does not entitle the recipient to re-publish any of the content it contains. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.