Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and abstractions are treacherous indeed, but we need them for directionality and efficacy.

Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and abstractions are treacherous indeed, but we need them for directionality and efficacy.

A healthy economy enables citizens to fulfill their basic obligations—moral as well as financial. These obligations include providing for themselves and their families and fulfilling responsibilities ...

Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that ...

We’ve all had our moments of stinginess: We pass a homeless person and spare no change, or decline an appeal from a charity. We might feel a pang of guilt, but you can’t be nice to everyone, right? A ...

Judaism’s moral ideas did not remain confined to one people. They shaped Christianity, Islam, Western law, and global ethical ...

Americans are passionately attached to no two things perhaps more closely than they are to their rights and to equality. Under the banner of furthering those two things have most of the broad social ...

Rabbi Akiva extolled the famous biblical phrase, וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Vayikrah 19:18), calling it a כְּלַל גָּדוֹל בַּתּוֹרָה – a “major ...

A shipping container filled with wildfire relief donations from Kauai arrives at the Ramelb family’s distribution hub in Lahaina on Oct. 11. However, think for a minute about the results of modeling ...