“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...

Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...

Moral hazard exists when a party to a transaction has an incentive to take unusual business risks because they are unlikely ...

This op-ed is part of The Hill’s “How to Fix America” series exploring solutions to some of America’s most pressing problems. We often hear that Democrats and Republicans are worlds apart. But what if ...

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...

In its denial of transcendent values and rights, The New York Times podcast captures a fundamental danger to our republic.

New research shows that moral values predict regional differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates beyond structural, demographic and political barriers to vaccination. Even though COVID-19 vaccines are ...

This is the key distinction, then: moral conscience (regulating one’s own behavior) does not appear to straightforwardly explain moral condemnation (regulating the behavior of others). Despite this, ...