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  • More Airpower Wouldn’t Have Saved Afghanistan

    More Airpower Wouldn’t Have Saved Afghanistan0

    Why did the modernized Afghan army lose so spectacularly to the Taliban after so much training and material support from the United States? One emerging talking point among British and American pundits is that the United States failed to provide sufficient air power. While it is true that U.S. airpower could have aided the Afghan

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  • Morality and Immigration: 4 Overlooked Stats Everyone Is Missing in the Border Crisis Debate

    Morality and Immigration: 4 Overlooked Stats Everyone Is Missing in the Border Crisis Debate0

    The humanitarian crisis unfolding on America’s southern border is a tragic scene. Reports state that Department of Health and Human Services has been taking in about 250 children per day in recent weeks as immigrants from South America—primarily from the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—pour into America. By August, the department could have

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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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