Yale philosopher Shelly Kagan's new book "What Is Morality?" asks whether objective moral truths exist in an age of ...

Truth is under threat today from two opposing impulses. The first is subjectivism, or relativism: the denial of the existence of objective truth or the possibility of ever attaining it. This ...

Large language artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, often misjudge what people outside the West might value as a moral priority, according to our new research published in the Proceedings ...

Most of us hold a handful of moral truths we consider unmovable. For example, violence, lying, and slavery are wrong. Yet, people regularly act against these truths. Some people cheer for violence in ...

David Brooks is facing a wave of online backlash after the longtime columnist branded Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner a “moral degenerate” on national television — prompting critics ...

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You check your credit score before applying for an apartment. Your fitness watch tells you whether you slept well enough. A workplace dashboard measures your productivity. Parents can buy devices that ...

We are only one week into 2026, and already the execrable nature of 2025 is overflowing into the new year. Adjectives like “horrible” or “gruesome” fail to capture the full texture and energy of what ...

Newton’s third law almost fits our polarized politics: For every action there is an extreme and opposite reaction. As Gerard Baker notes in “Trump Accelerates Our Decline Into Moral Relativism” (Free ...

For most of the last few centuries, advances in scientific understanding have seemed to undermine arguments for the existence of God. Physical phenomena ascribed to a deity have been discovered to ...

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