When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...

Moral hazard exists when a party to a transaction has an incentive to take unusual business risks because they are unlikely ...

I’ve hosted a number of sessions about social and emotional learning (SEL) over the past six months, and one question that’s repeatedly come up is whether SEL is ultimately an attempt to repackage ...

Among the myriad perplexities of our recent presidential elections is the apparent paradox by which a voter base presumably made largely of moral individuals voted in droves for a candidate who has ...

In his new book, A Natural History of Morality, Michael Tomasello begins with the startling suggestion that what we call “morality” is really about mechanisms of creating group structure—that there ...

I’ve hosted a number of sessions about social and emotional learning (SEL) over the past six months, and one question that’s repeatedly come up is whether SEL is ultimately an attempt to repackage ...

Listen to “Is Morality Missing in America?” on Spreaker. So often we talk about legality. That can miss the larger point. A better conversation is about morality. John Adams understood that and said s ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

In our pursuit of efficiency, we often celebrate breakthroughs that allow us to save time, reduce costs and achieve more. Efficiency is a powerful force, shaping the way businesses operate, how ...