Americans More Pessimistic About Morals Than Ever

Americans More Pessimistic About Morals Than Ever

A majority of U.S. adults expressed pessimism about the nation’s morals for the first time in polling history, according to a Gallup report published June 9. More than half (54%) of U.S. adults believe that America has “poor” moral values, and a majority (83%) believe...
Moral Passion: Unleashed but Ungrounded

Moral Passion: Unleashed but Ungrounded

I had to ground some of the outlets in the first house we bought. It was dirty work. The process required entering a cramped crawl space that was inhabited by camelback crickets, a species that looked too much like the face-hugger in the movie “Alien” for me to be...