Atheist Ethicist

Somewhere in the midst of discussing the Case of the Communion Cracker I wrote my 1000th essay. It’s also my birthday. As a result, I ha...

There are two statements that the head of the Catholic League has made with respect to the Case of the Communion Cracker that deserve specia...

The Case of the Communion Cracker Part 2: Bill Donahue So far, I have given a moral evaluation of the theft of a communion cracker. In b...

As I mentioned, a member of the studio audience asked me to render moral judgment on the Case of the Communion Cracker. In my first post I...

A member of the studio audience has written to me and asked that I pass moral judgment on The Case of the Communion Cracker. In fact, ther...

A number of topics of public discussion in recent weeks – rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees, treatment of citizens in foreign lands, the cu...

With respect to any piece of legislation that comes before a legislator, there are two sets of questions to be answered. The first set conce...

I seem to be in a state of dispute with a couple of my most loyal readers – or, at least, a couple of my most loyal readers who post comment...

Democratic Presidential Nominee Barak Obama has announced recently that he will visit several countries in Europe and the Middle East and th...

In a comment to a recent post, one of my regular commenters, Shaldon, brought up the issue of the degree to which a soldier can be morally p...

I am going to break protocol with this blog and spend a posting discussing strategy, regarding the status of 'under God' in the Pled...

Over the course of this blog, I have had a few people make the comment that an appeal to emotion is somehow illegitimate. We must appeal to ...

It appears that the American people are determined to remove all substance from political contests in this country and to fill them with jun...

A recent set of articles in the Washington Post focused on a political phenomenon that I consider to be the moral equivalent of the gang-rap...