This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...

Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and abstractions are treacherous indeed, but we need them for directionality and efficacy.

Ryan Messmore is the William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Society at The Heritage Foundation. Messmore examines how religious commitments are brought to bear on political life in an effort ...

Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that ...

A healthy economy enables citizens to fulfill their basic obligations—moral as well as financial. These obligations include providing for themselves and their families and fulfilling responsibilities ...

We’ve all had our moments of stinginess: We pass a homeless person and spare no change, or decline an appeal from a charity. We might feel a pang of guilt, but you can’t be nice to everyone, right? A ...

Americans are passionately attached to no two things perhaps more closely than they are to their rights and to equality. Under the banner of furthering those two things have most of the broad social ...

Law students reflect on the principles they intend to follow in their professional lives. In 1996, while teaching a course on ethics to Santa Clara University law students, I asked the members of my ...

IN a world where alliances shift rapidly and disputes over territory, trade, and influence dominate headlines, can moral integrity become a nation’s strategic advantage? History demonstrates that ...

Our country is in the throes of a real moral dilemma. The cause is the dumbing down of eternal moral principles. I will use the issue of homosexuality as an example. However, the basis of this could ...