This is one of the questions Susan Neiman asks us to ponder in her book, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists. Neiman is an American philosopher who runs an international think tank in ...
For decades after the Holocaust, it was believed that liberal democracies were the best bulwark against the return of ...
The rabbis ask: why is tzedek doubled? Because the pursuit of justice is not selective. Because justice for the powerful and ...
Interview: The pundit/professor's new book warns that the treasured virtue of empathy is being weaponized by bad actors into ...
Next Thursday evening, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. This holiday, which occurs seven weeks and one day after ...
Dennis Prager, in his book If There Is No God, poses a thought experiment that cuts to the heart of how we ground moral ...
At a time when antisemitism is rapidly changing form, often disguised as political activism and “progressive” language, the Jewish world must learn to think globally.
When Sabastian Sawe ran the first ever sub-two-hour marathon on April 26 th last, he posed for photographs with the €500 ...
In its denial of transcendent values and rights, The New York Times podcast captures a fundamental danger to our republic.
The late political scientist James C. Scott endorsed what he called “anarchist calisthenics”—the regular practice of small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience. Jaywalk at an empty intersection. Have ...
Broadly speaking, ethical relativism contends that ethical rules are drawn from human experience and that what is right or wrong is dependent upon particular times and places. There are cultural ...
The seventh and final hearing of the White House Religious Liberty Commission gathered at the Museum of the Bible on Monday ...