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

Part one. Confronting the unreliable provenance of morals.

1. Wherein I begin with the definition of the word

2. According to a convicted murderer, it has to do with character

3. A neuroscientist explains the evolutionary origins of morality

4. A brief history of mankind's attempts to rein in bad behavior

Part two. Morality's scorecard

5. The editor of the "Financial Times" provides a cost-benefit analysis of principles

6. Instructions on how not to cheat

7. Pros and cons of doing the right thing

8. The law: tools of control, or instruments of enlightenment?

9. The political function of ethics

Part three. Sex as moral provocateur

10. Monogamy (not so much anymore)

11. The screen as a siren

12. Testosterone: morality's enemy, as well as its hero

13. Immoral women: or just those having a better time?

Part four. Taking the bother out of morality

14. Celebrities as standard-bearers

15. Reality defined

16. The web wonders what's so great about the truth

17. Ethically sanitized warfare

18. Immorality's black sun

Part five. The future, or something like it

19. The moral vagaries of making babies

20. Mapping a post-gay culture

21. Is it progress if we barter with ethics?

22. Programming morality in robots (they'll show us how)

23. So who, exactly, gets to set the new rules?

24. Wherein I conclude by looking forward.