As is often true, he wasn’t the first but is the worst to use others’ wrongs as an excuse for his own.

In an age of economic disparity, social unrest and climate volatility, the concept of ‘moral economics’ is no longer an abstract philosophical ideal but rather a pragmatic response to a system that is ...

Varying definitions of critical race theory, or CRT, have circulated in online groups, public school board meetings and dinner conversations for the last several months. Some parents who oppose the ...

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 ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said his party has a moral duty to keep Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party out of power. Speaking to the BBC at his party's autumn conference, Sir Ed said ...

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I've spent years as a criminal prosecutor. But lately, I've become frustrated by an ongoing case of lawbreaking where I just can't get a conviction. What makes it all the more vexing is that I've seen ...

The Trump administration is ordering officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to take a more “holistic” approach when determining whether to award U.S. citizenship to immigrants, ...

The Trump administration is signaling it will more heavily scrutinize applications filed by legal immigrants seeking American citizenship, in its latest effort to tighten access to U.S. immigration ...

Nietzsche has sometimes been interpreted as endorsing an error theory about moral judgements. A host of passages provide prima facie reason for such an interpretation ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

A UB researcher has published a study that uses elements of philosophy, psychology and game theory to develop a model of hypocrisy that helps distinguish genuine criticism from grandstanding ...