Explore 'moral hazard,' the key economic concept explaining how safety nets and bailouts can unintentionally encourage risky, destructive behaviour.

Getting divorced can mean untangling some sticky personal and financial issues. A wrinkle may be added when there are kids involved and you’re trying to work out custody arrangements, child support or ...

I noted in my last post that many science-minded moral philosophers suggest that morality should aspire towards utilitarian goals (maximizing welfare for the greatest number of people/beings). I also ...

As schools across the country experience book bans and attempts to limit the curriculum, in Texas one group led by the spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump fought in the past year to ...

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 ...

One just needs to Google “torture devices of the Middle Ages” to come out feeling sick to their core. For a large part of human history, torture was commonplace and also viewed as an essential means ...

Global gloom is intensifying as most people face inflation and inequality, while corporate greed and opaque technology create ...

I’ve read a number of introduction to philosophy, or ethics for the ordinary person books. The latest, and it’s as good as any of them, is How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question ...

It is widely accepted in the Western world today that morality is relative. People who say this usually mean that morality is ...