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The Nazi Of Oak Park

Michael Soffer | Chicago Magazine | 3rd September 2024 | U

Profile of Reinhold Kulle, an SS officer who became a high school janitor in Chicago, “one of the most common landing spots for former Nazis” after WWII. So many arrived there that investigators would joke that Nazi-hunting organisations could have simply moved to Chicago. Kulle hid his past from the immigration authorities, and passed himself off as an upstanding member of the Oak Park community (8,000 words)

Good Judgement With Numbers

Richard Chappell | Good Thoughts | 23rd September 2024 | U

Ethicists tend to have an “All or Nothing” view of quantitative tools in practical decision-making. Either they religiously follow the numbers, or they dismiss “soulless number-crunching” as irrelevant. Both approaches are bad. People “should instead use good judgement informed by quantitative considerations”, and admit that sometimes, it is difficult to know which moral action to prioritise (2,300 words)