In A Nutshell Researchers tested two types of moral arguments on 375 Americans: one focused on preventing harm and ensuring ...

I was pleased that my Oct. 10 opinion piece was used by Lou Matz’s University of the Pacific philosophy class to generate discussion on the morality of abortion, a topic introduced in his Moral ...

A new study shows that moral arguments appealing to care and fairness can persuade both liberals and conservatives in the ...

Travis Rieder is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. His new book, Catastrophe Ethics, is out on March 5. Modern life is morally exhausting. And ...

Everything I have said and done is these last years is relativism, by intuition. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist ...

Mr. Gary Cosby believes America’s moral problems begin in “the” church, creating a crisis for “the” faith, resulting in “a major decline in our national morality” (Dec. 14). But he fails to ...

Last November, the International Space Station (ISS) had to dodge space junk again. The ISS had to fire its thrusters to avoid a collision with space junk in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The ISS fired its ...

IF a reporter is sent to interview a man, it is essential that he get hold of the right man, ply him with the proper methods, and sound him on the proper subjects. It is much the same with us. Some ...

It seems the moral imperative for climate action just isn’t computing. In Europe, hope for the ambitious climate action we need was whittled away this summer, with the G-7 reneging on its earlier ...

To ask seventy young adults what they think about pornography is to receive seventy-one different opinions. We saw this first-hand when talking to groups of young women and men in Philadelphia. The ...