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  • Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay

    Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay0

    Common sense has a bad name. Among the educated middle class, it has connotations with the backwardness of provincial folk, reverence to tradition, and outmoded mores on gender and cultural diversity. That so many people continue to think in this way is no validation, because the intelligentsia derides the very notion of ‘normal’. Our culture

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  • Moral philosophy is not dead yet

    Moral philosophy is not dead yet0

    Last year, the ethicist Walter-Sinnot Armstrong asked whether philosophers were out of touch with, even contemptuous, of ordinary people and everyday life. The picture he paints isn’t flattering: Philosophers love to complain about bad reasoning. How can those other people commit such silly fallacies? Don’t they see how arbitrary and inconsistent their positions are? Aren’t

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  • Moral Outrage: A Theory on Why We’re Seeing So Much of It

    Moral Outrage: A Theory on Why We’re Seeing So Much of It0

    Why do people express so much moral outrage? A pair of academic researchers recently asked this question and discovered “that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity.” The paper is (appropriately) titled, “A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and

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  • Moral Outrage Has a Cost

    Moral Outrage Has a Cost0

    Many Americans are morally outraged that U.S. President Donald Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, who had been investigating possible links between Trump’s election campaign and the Russian government. Many others are angry that Comey accused President Trump of lying about the FBI. Still others are mad that Trump then accused Comey of lying

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  • Moral Outrage as Compensation for Guilt: An Explanation for 21st Century Campus Violence

    Moral Outrage as Compensation for Guilt: An Explanation for 21st Century Campus Violence0

    The worst American campus violence since my college days at the University of Michigan in the late 60s and early 70s begs the question: Why?  It’s not just the violence at places like Berkeley and Middlebury, but also students’ increasingly aggressive demands to keep conservative speakers away, create safe spaces, publish trigger warnings, and protect

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  • Moral Grandstanding Might Make You a Worse Person

    Moral Grandstanding Might Make You a Worse Person0

    In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85 percent say political discourse has gotten worse over the last several years, according to Pew Research. The polarization plays out everywhere in society, from private holiday gatherings to very public conversations on social media,

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