to exploit in millions of simple minds the desire for peace and revulsion from war which are among the deepest moral instincts of contemporary society. We must recognize that during the epoch of ...
Trump’s Lessons for Defending the Rule of Law
The January 6th Committee is publicizing its investigation into the January 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol. The Committee faces an uphill task, but by taking a leaf out of Trump’s book and ...
An ethical optimist
He argues that our sense of right and wrong has been shaped by evolution, and that there consequently exists a core of moral instincts that are shared across all societies. Religious traditions ...
The Emerging Moral Majority
Moral concerns pop up one decade in right-wing clothes, and, in the next, change into another outfit. So long as there is any diversity of voices in mass media, we will have something like a ...
Are We to Have a Non-Moral Religion?
It may be that non-moral religion is the only kind that can live in a world where the legitimacy of the acquisitive instinct is taken for granted. To attempt to interpret, in terms of modern ...
What Is at the Root of Suffering in Health Care Providers?
Death by a thousand cuts is still a death, as I thought when I first heard the term. While I instinctively feel moral injury is an important idea, sometimes my instincts are not right and simply ...
Charles M. Blow: Women will save us | GUEST COMMENTARY
In the face of recent threats to the country from Donald Trump, it's the women who have truly distinguished themselves.
Women will save us from ourselves
Men are pack animals. Not all of us, of course, but male culture is ordered by hierarchies of power, with the apex being the alpha.
Yuck!: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
The intensity with which... 4 Disgust and Moral Psychology: Tribal Instincts and the Co-opt Thesis 4 Disgust and Moral Psychology: Tribal Instincts and the Co-opt Thesis (pp. 101-136) What is the ...
The Minions movies offer a master class on comedy-friendly evil
Despicable Me and its spinoffs could be horror movies, if they weren’t so carefully calculated The opening sequence of 2015’s Minions is riveting. It may not be an impressive movie as a whole: The ...
My moral compass is intact, says Tory bidding to help keep Boris Johnson in job
The Conservative candidate bidding to replace shamed MP Neil Parish says she won’t lose her “moral compass” if elected to Westminster this week.
Patrick Grady case illustrates the authoritarian instincts of the SNP – Brian Wilson
The Grady case will doubtless be held up as an antidote to Nationalist claims of high moral ground. More optimistically, it might open eyes to the nature of the beast that runs Scotland and its ...
