The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reckon with deep structural problems in our society, such as global climate change and economic injustice. To rectify those problems, we need to recognize that ...

Where does the belief in moral responsibility come from? Some philosophers, myself included, maintain that there is a strange disconnect between the strength of philosophical arguments in support of ...

In a 2024 commentary, “How California’s Energy Policies Fuel Real-World Atrocities Abroad,” I exposed a contradiction that had become impossible to ignore: California’s insistence on shutting down its ...

Public responsibility is not a managerial skill, nor is it a derivative of formal authority. It is not acquired through an appointment or an election, nor is it the product of a public committee’s ...

The deepest roots of our commitment to moral responsibility are in powerful emotions, rather than reason. There are many sources for the stubborn belief in moral responsibility, and some are quite ...