The Briefing 02-04-15

1) Islamic State execution of Jordanian hostage reveals moral asymmetry in fight against evil

Islamic State video purports to show Jordanian pilot burnt alive, Reuters (Staff)

Obama decries hateful ideology after Jordanian pilot’s death, Washington Post (AP)

2) UK authorizes three parent embryo fertilization, neglects ethical challenges of research 

MPs vote in favour of ‘three-person embryo’ law, The Guardian (Rowena Mason and Hannah Devlin)

How a baby can have three parents, The Economist

3) Conservative and liberal definitions of right and wrong shows moral influence of worldview

The Myth of the Harmless Wrong, New York Times (Kurt Gray)

4) Judges more conservative than lawyers, study a commendation of democratic separation of powers

Why Judges Tilt to the Right, New York Times (Adam Liptak)