In A Nutshell Researchers tested two types of moral arguments on 375 Americans: one focused on preventing harm and ensuring fairness, the other on loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Conservative ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ICC’s document, however, also charged three leaders of Hamas with war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and the taking of hostages, during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent is lost, existence in the world ceases to be possible ...

I'm writing in response to a recent article (“Should Colleges Engage in Ethics Education?,” Oct. 19) by Steven Mintz concerning the role of ethics in an undergraduate education. He suggests that, ...

David, a 42-year-old journalist, sturdily built with a rugged demeanor, was sent to my psychotherapy practice by his internist. David told me he has trouble sleeping and suffers from chronic stress, ...

In the heightened political context of an election year, a group of political philosophers start a new journal in which they use the tools of high-level political philosophy to address issues of ...