South Sudan’s instability is usually explained through politics: weak institutions, competition over oil wealth, and ...

Plato, a pivotal 4th-century BCE Athenian philosopher, profoundly influenced Western thought. His teachings on justice, knowledge, and ideal societies, particularly through dialogues like 'The ...

A friends of the court brief outlines opposition to mass surveillance and eliminating human oversight of autonomous weapons.

Myson of Chenae, named a sage by Plato instead of Periander, stood for ethical wisdom over political power in Greek philosophical thought.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a key Enlightenment figure, questioned societal norms and authority, emphasizing equality and liberty. His quote, 'To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness,' ...

Ninety-six years after Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March that began on March 12, 1930, the shrinking space for dissent in India ...

Author Michael Simon Baker examines the common moral principles found across the world’s major religions and philosophical traditions. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2026 ...

Professors are seen to wield absolute power, and when this power inevitably takes a sinister turn, that corruption is presented as a mere symptom of academe’s deeper rot. This trope has a life beyond ...

Alasdair MacIntyre’s journey from Marxism to Catholicism wasn’t a retreat from critique but its completion. He concluded that moral language collapsed without God, that virtue needs tradition and that ...

The president casts himself as the ultimate authority on good and evil — and believes it is his job to enforce it ...

Moral taint occurs because morality is learned behavior. It is easier to be good when surrounded by good people. Good friends and colleagues support you in virtue and warn you away from vice. But when ...

The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, ...