Clair Wills’s memoir is a timely warning that sexual morality can be enforced only with violence.
Taking the moral high ground despite the horrors of the enemy can be a winning strategy.
In European and North American countries, at least six-in-ten respondents believe that it is not necessary to believe in God in order to be moral. Responses differ by political affiliation, age, religious belief and education level.
It’s not enough for socialists to point out capitalism’s many faults — we need to explain our positive vision of the future and how it lives up to our ideals of justice.
How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.
A father and son describe what it's like to hear desperate cries on the sea at night as Italy hardens its stance against refugees. If people are in danger at sea, sailors save them, without asking where they come from or the colour of their skin.
From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein’s Vice Capades examines the nation’s relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that our views of vice are formed less by morals than by power.
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America's foremost experts on women's health -- conservative men in their 60s -- slam the FDA's decision to sell Plan B without a prescription.
In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other external source, morality for de Waal springs bottom-up from our emotions and our day-to-day social interactions, which themselves evolved from foundations in animal societies.
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