Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

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 ...

Moral injury can occur when our ability to maintain a good moral character has been compromised by the circumstances of an oppressive or dangerous condition, such as intimate partner abuse (IPA). In ...

Not to freak you out, but you may be in the middle of a moral panic. A moral panic is the pervasive belief that some great wickedness is threatening society and must be stopped. Calling something a ...

If the West wishes to prevent future terror attacks, it must look beyond the individual attacker and interrogate the ...

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“Space is big,” wrote Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979). “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down ...

Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations ...