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 ...

Catholics in the United States who frequently use the expressions “culture of death” and “dictatorship of relativism” increasingly inhabit—and have helped to build—a world that these ...

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 itself is a certain way of looking at the world. And this view — that there is no right or wrong — is being imposed on us. In other words, ...

Commentator James Davison Hunter talks about what Pope Benedict XVI has called the "dictatorship of relativism." Hunter believes that relativism -- the idea that all faiths or belief systems are ...