The tragedy is not that corruption exists, but that we have normalised it to the point where it no longer shocks us ...

Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the exercise of freedom in the Western world. The self-determination of human beings, of citizens ...

The health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are not equally felt. From the United States to Brazil and the United Kingdom, low-wage workers are suffering more than others and ...

In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85% say political discourse has gotten worse over the ...

Public moral discourse is toxic. One reason it’s so bad is that people use their discussions of morality and politics for self-promotion, rather than to help others. You may have heard people accuse ...

Contrary to the claim of Lawrence Kohlberg that moral virtues are arbitrary standards of character because virtue words lack descriptive content, it is argued that the moral virtues and judgement are ...

AI is already making decisions that affect who receives care, who gets hired, who is approved for a credit card and how ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 167, No. 3 (December 2020), pp. 571-588 (18 pages) An extensive literature has focused on the impact of new public management (NPM) oriented structural changes on ...

Companies often promote a particular set of values through a corporate mission statement, code of ethics or slogan. The extent to which individual employees apply these values on a day-to-day basis ...

In an earlier post (Why Forgiving Does Not Require an Apology, April 20, 2018), I argued that a wronged person who is contemplating forgiving need not await an apology from the one who offended. I ...