Cultural relativism, a term that had been introduced to the public with Benedict’s Patterns of Culture in 1934, was supposed to be a way of thinking about the world.

A s a young conservative, I was taught to despise something we were taught to call “moral relativism.” The moral relativism of the time was a particular Cold War variant: The United States and ...

Moral relativism has been a conservative boogeyman since at least the Cold War. Conservative stalwarts like William F. Buckley claimed that liberals had accepted a view that morality was ...

The Flaws of Income Relativism. Measuring the changes in income inequality is a statistical exercise, a sure-fire way to bore most everyone, including policymakers.

Relativism is not to be absolutized; it is itself to be relativized by the absolute. Milton D. Hunnex is professor and head of the department of philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

A typical example of this phenomenon appeared in the pages of Australia’s bastion of serious conservative thought, the journal Quadrant: “Relativism and the Right” by Sam Roggeveen, March 2000. Not ...