Atheist Ethicist

This is an ethics blog. With the election getting near, I have to note the low moral quality of Romney’s character. Liar The first mor...

Adam Smith's "invisible hand", whereby a free market economy benefits society as a whole, requires an assumption of near-equal...

Sorry, I took some time off to suffer from an illness, but I am better now. I was discussing how Romney's economic plans would fail in...

The topic of negative externalities identifies a place where the Republican Party completely abandons its own morality. Free market econom...

I am a fan of free markets. However, I am no fan of the Republican Party when it ignores what is understood about how markets work. This poi...

Over the course of the next four days, I am going to discuss four reasons why Romney's economic intentions will fail. Furthermore, I w...

Why should you adopt desirsm? Answer: If I am right, you already have. You may have a favorite account of how you think you do morality....

In a recent appearance, President Obama said that one of the things he has realized is that Washington cannot be changed from the inside. It...

After recently posting on why I have not written much on politics recently, I want to say a few things on where the policies that Democra...

It is utter arrogance to pretend to have certain knowledge on the matter of political and economic systems. This point is relevant to comm...

I was asked Why haven't you been writing much about politics lately? Surely it is a meaty topic given the upcoming election? I haven...

In my writings, I employ certain phrases ad nauseum - because they put an emphasis on what I consider to be important - what I want people t...

Tracking visits to my blog back to their origin, I often find things that cause me a bit of . . . well . . . frustration? Baggini vs Kraus...