Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America; By Jeffrey ...

Historical periods are commonly differentiated into various features that define them, such as the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, or the Age of Discovery. Our day may come to be known as the Age of ...

In our current landscape, we have too often replaced the fearless pursuit of truth with the comfort of echo chambers.

Do politicians get more done if they are more prone to virtue or to vice, if they are inclined toward justice and humanity or toward a self-serving social strategy? New research from UC Berkeley shows ...

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Just because there are complex scientific and political questions involved in how to respond to the environmental crisis, that does not mean we should not ask how each of us as individuals might ...

There is an intimate link between religion and morality. It's not fashionable to say so: many argue that talk of a link – and talk is all it is – should be stopped. After all, individuals can clearly ...

A NEW phrase has slowly been creeping its way into everyday lexicon and newspaper articles without many people realising it – virtue signalling. The term refers to making a statement or performing an ...

Virtue signalling, a phrase coined just four years ago, has become a popular putdown for anyone who appears to hold a belief but doesn’t act on it. At its most basic, virtue signalling is often ...