The pharmaceutical industry needs to rehabilitate its image. Moral foundations theory can help. Over the course of a career spent in the industry, I have felt disapproval, mostly from liberal friends ...

Objective. In order to understand the role of clergy in shaping Americans’ moral worldviews, we examine whether the structure of clergy values varies in systematic ways according to contextual factors ...

I post a lot about this Penn State scandal in large part because it offers a way for us to examine critically some important themes in our lives and in our time — especially authority, fidelity, ...

The philosopher Peter Boghossian and I are doing a public event together later this week in Budapest. It will be recorded and put on YouTube; I’ll post a link when it’s done. Peter and I were talking ...

In an increasingly diverse America, weighing the rights of the majority versus the rights of the minority sparks debate and disagreement, both in the realm of theory and in everyday life. Patten, the ...

THE state finds its warrant for the establishment of free common schools in the well-founded assumption that the education of the young is necessary to good citizenship and the safety of free ...

A campaign button from Republican Nominee Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Source: Robert Mather “The root difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals of today is that ...

For the people of a nation, an accurate measure of conflict lies not only in military victories but also in maintaining moral ...