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 ...

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police ...

To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal and what is not. Sometimes things can fall outside the range of normal and people are OK with it.