Over the past year, a spirit of iconoclasm has swept across the United States. Dozens of statues have been removed or toppled by people outraged by the supposed moral failures of the men depicted in ...
We tend to talk about wealth in economic terms—tax policy, markets, incentives—but rarely in moral ones. In an age that idolizes accumulation, posing moral limits threatens to expose something we’d ...
When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...