ethics

  • Can We Live with Ourselves?

    What does it take to resist totalitarianism? In the years following the Holocaust, German-Jewish-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) devoted herself to this question. Arendt believed that trying to understand how and why the Holocaust had happened was an essential task… Continue reading

    Can We Live with Ourselves?

  • Outrage: To whom are we responsible?

    I simply do not have the luxury of shocked liberal outrage over the choice of the U.S. government to interpret our law in such a way that terrorizes families because this is simply the long, historical reality of the people… Continue reading

    Outrage: To whom are we responsible?

  • Immoral Inhospitality

    Edit: Due to the controversy caused by Fr. Robert Arida’s original post, Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America chose to remove the post and replace it with his own reflection.  The overwhelmingly hostile responses remain.  You may read… Continue reading

  • Remembering Empire in the Aftermath of an Earthquake: Why North Americans Need Haiti

    Saturday, January 12, marks the three year anniversary of the earthquake that left Haiti in ruins.  Immediately after this earthquake, scenes of Haitian suffering appeared with unprecedented frequency on TV screens throughout the United States.  In response, many North Americans… Continue reading