When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...

A letter from July 29 indicated that the social issues of gay marriage and abortion are examples of a downward, sliding scale of morality by giving, in their words, “laughable and outlandish” examples ...

Among the myriad perplexities of our recent presidential elections is the apparent paradox by which a voter base presumably made largely of moral individuals voted in droves for a candidate who has ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

Putting moral insight back into economics enhances understanding of political outcomes For much of the 20th century, the disciplines of moral psychology and economics were seen as distinct—each ...