Everyone at AEI knows that we were built on the concept of “a competition of ideas.” But that competition also requires something to come first: a clear moral consensus. Think of an atom. The outer ...

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Discussions of politics and morality often focus on divisions and conflicts more than what there is in common. This is a mistake, according to Carl Anderson, head of the Catholic fraternal ...

Moral compromise lies at the heart of democratic theory as a mechanism for reconciling conflicting values and interests within pluralistic societies. At its core, moral compromise involves the ...

Should teachers dictate what’s right or wrong? Blackboard via pupunkkop/Shutterstock In its ideal form, education should be socially progressive. We teach the next generation of scientists, engineers ...

America’s growing divisions are often described as political, but that diagnosis misses something more fundamental. What the United States is experiencing today is not merely disagreement over policy ...

People typically evaluate the preferences of both themselves and others before making decisions in moral dilemmas. Researchers have theorized how people face moral dilemmas, but experimental data is ...