Ebook: Behaving badly: the new morality in politics, sex, and business

Part One. Confronting the unreliable provenance of morals -- Wherein I begin with the definition of the word -- According to a convicted murderer, it has to do with character -- A neuroscientist explains the evolutionary origins of morality -- A brief history of mankind's attempts to rein in bad behavior -- Part Two. Morality's scorecard -- The editor of the Financial Times provides a cost-benefit analysis of principles -- Instructions on how not to cheat -- Pros and cons of doing the right thing -- The law: tools of control, or instruments of enlightenment? -- The political function of ethics -- Part Three. Sex as moral provocateur -- Monogamy (not so much anymore) -- The screen as a siren -- Testosterone: morality's enemy, as well as its hero -- Immoral women: or just those having a better time? -- Part Four. Taking the bother out of morality -- Celebrities as standard-bearers -- Reality defined -- The web wonders what's so great about the truth -- Ethically sanitized warfare -- Immorality's black sun -- Part Five. The future, or something like it -- The moral vagaries of making babies -- Mapping a post-gay culture -- Is it progress if we barter with ethics? -- Programming morality in robots (they'll show us how) -- So who, exactly, gets to set the new rules? -- Wherein I conclude by looking forward.