Morality is a word that should inspire reflection, yet in America it often provokes discomfort, suspicion, or outright avoidance. Why are we so afraid of the term?

A healthy economy enables citizens to fulfill their basic obligations—moral as well as financial. These obligations include providing for themselves and their families and fulfilling responsibilities ...

1. Moral relativism is avoidable: While we often talk as though we have the last word on morality, no one ever really gets the last word for the simple reason that we can always challenge the morality ...

We’ve all had our moments of stinginess: We pass a homeless person and spare no change, or decline an appeal from a charity. We might feel a pang of guilt, but you can’t be nice to everyone, right? A ...

Law students reflect on the principles they intend to follow in their professional lives. In 1996, while teaching a course on ethics to Santa Clara University law students, I asked the members of my ...

Americans are passionately attached to no two things perhaps more closely than they are to their rights and to equality. Under the banner of furthering those two things have most of the broad social ...

Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that ...

Patricia S. Churchland, the philosopher and neuroscientist, is sitting at a cafe on the Upper West Side, explaining the vacuousness, as she sees it, of a vast swath of contemporary moral philosophy.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: A person passes frozen turkeys displayed for sale inside a grocery store on November 14, 2022 in New York City. The price of turkeys, a staple for many Americans at ...