People don't like jerks. But jerks think people instead can't handle their ideas.

Ethics isn’t just something we know and understand, it’s something we do. As I wrote last week, the ethical life is a practice, aimed at changing our perspective about the world and ourselves so that we can be more accepting of their impermanence and i...

Last Sunday, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire, his death an act of protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza. This self-immolation provoked much conversation, as was its intent, and one entry into that discourse comes from Graeme Wood at The Atlantic. H...

A family parable about forging a sense of place and meaning—and what it says about the liberal project.

The most overlooked—but most important—ingredient of an ethical life.