A new study in Public Opinion Quarterly shows that moral arguments appealing to care and fairness can persuade both liberals and conservatives in the United States. By contrast, arguments grounded in ...

‘No Kings’ May Be Largely Peaceful, but the Peaceful Are Giving Cover to the Violent Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments Audio By Carbonatix This was a predictable disaster.

Does originalism need a moral defense? In his newly published Vaughan Lecture, Joel Alicea argues that it does: Justifying a constitutional methodology requires arguing that judges ought to employ ...

In recent months, the notion of making moral arguments in favor of a range of policy goals has been quite visible in the public conversation. This has made me think more carefully about the very ...

Not long ago, we lost a voice who spent his life insisting that it did. Alasdair MacIntyre, the Scottish philosopher who gave us "After Virtue," died May 21 at the age of 96. He spent decades ...

A forum on affordable housing with a couple of state House Democratic leaders turned into a discussion Monday about the complicated political realities surrounding major housing reforms. Experts have ...

The Kansas City Star, editorializing about the president's threat to veto the stem cell bill passed by the House, described human embryos as the "excess products of fertility procedures." The Los ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is presented as both a moral imperative and an economic engine. Disruptions to SNAP benefits can impact the entire food economy, not just the ...