Atheist Ethicist

Our last conversation brought up the subject of moral hazard. This is a term largely used in economics. There, it is typically used to ref...

There are issues where I wish Republicans would be Republicans and not abandon their principles - particularly where they abandon those prin...

There was a careful bit of word choice in my last post that could have easily been missed, so I want to shine a spotlight on it. It wrote ...

We are commonly tricked by a mythology of intrinsic fairness into adopting and promoting outcomes and procedures that there are few real-wor...

A member of the studio audience has, in effect, asked me to present the fundamental theory of value on which my writings and moral judgments...

A member of the studio audience has tried to explain to me how Republicans feel about asking those who make more than $250,000 pay a higher ...

As tempting as it is to scoff, there is a valid point to be made behind these petitions to secede from the union. As a response to the 201...

A member of the studio audience as asked me to address the question Why would it ever be rational to put someone else's (overall/net) ...

I dislike being partisan. I tried to join the Democratic Party once. I found too many elements as distasteful as the religious right and t...

It should be noted that the only place where the Republican Party retained power on the federal level was where they could manipulate the vo...

The Fiscal Cliff looms. The term refers to a set of automatic spending cuts and tax increases that go into effect or expire at the end of...

I am hoping that the election will prompt the Republican Party to do some soul searching and make some badly needed changes. I am not a poli...

I spent some time last week discussing where Romney's economic plans will fail - how he ignores the problems of positive and negative ex...

A pool player will tell you, with each shot you take, to think about the shot that follows. Where the cue ball stops is nearly as important ...

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...