Author

Michael Bugeja
Michael Bugeja is the author of "Living Media Ethics" (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) and "Interpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine" (Oxford Univ. Press). He is a regular contributor to Iowa Capital Dispatch and is writing a series of columns on the topic of "Living Ethics."
‘App-ocalypse’ in the Iowa caucus
By: Michael Bugeja - February 4, 2020
We’re all living in accelerated digital time. Technology does that. We want what we want when we want it: on demand.
Living ethics: Human condition v. human nature
By: Michael Bugeja - January 27, 2020
When discussing political candidates, media often use (and sometimes confuse) the terms “human condition” and “human nature.” No one bothers to define them. What, exactly, is the human condition? What is human nature? The educational platform, Study.com, defines both. The human condition concerns our positive and negative qualities whereas human nature involves our emotional responses […]
We have a constitutional right to pursue happiness but many don’t know how
By: Michael Bugeja - January 7, 2020
Happiness is a distinct American virtue. It is one of three natural rights along with life and liberty in the Declaration of Independence whose author, Thomas Jefferson, never explained what he meant by pursuing it.