With Cultural Integration, ‘People Will Always Need to Create Others‘

Eden Collinsworth / Truthdig Aug 16, 2017 In "Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business," the author unravels how we make moral choices in our ethically flexible age. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?

Robert Reich / Truthdig Sep 7, 2015 An economy depends fundamentally on public morality, some shared standards about what sorts of activities are impermissible because they so fundamentally violate trust that they threaten to undermine the social fabric. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘When it Comes to Moral Choices, Outstanding Physicists Are Very Ordinary’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 26, 2015 Philip Ball’s new book, “Serving the Reich,” considers how “some of the great 20th century physicists … stayed in Germany throughout the thirties, and in some cases throughout” World War II. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Being Mortal

Louise Rubacky / Truthdig Mar 21, 2015 Surgeon and public health expert Atul Gawande writes in his book on facing the final phase of life that "as people's capacities wane making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives When should we try to fix and when should we not?". Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Glenn Greenwald Explains Privacy to Those Who Claim Indifference Toward Government Surveillance

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2014 Many people tell the journalist they don't care about the NSA snooping through their data, but he has a great response; the language you speak may have an effect on your moral choices; meanwhile, the future of books in the digital age remains uncertain. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Moral Rights and Wrongs May Depend on Your Geographic Location

Staff / Truthdig Apr 22, 2014 A Pew study reveals that people in disparate parts of the world responded differently to moral issues; an essential vitamin is found in meteorites; meanwhile, scientists have succeeded in cloning adult stem cells. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert’s News Flash: You’re Going to Die Someday

Staff / Truthdig Jan 23, 2014 Now, according to the late night show host, you can know the exact second you will perish. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Slogan Is a Load of Hooey—or Is It?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 16, 2013 The Internet giant has had its hand in quite a few immoralities as of late, even though the company once claimed to be founded on the principle of "good" and the avoidance of "evil." Was it all just a lie, or does "evil" simply mean something entirely different to Google? Author and game designer Ian Bogost has some alarming ideas on the subject. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Morality Brigade

Robert Reich / Truthdig Mar 26, 2013 We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 11, 2011 We spurn real teachers -- those with the capacity to inspire -- and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests These instructors obey They teach children to obey And that is the pointWe spurn real teachers and replace them with instructors who obey. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Countering the Usurpers

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Feb 4, 2011 I've been bristling recently at conservatives' dual hijacking: morality and the Constitution as the domain of small-government conservatives. I'd like them back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Churchy State

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Nov 13, 2010 Dig deeper