Moral obligations might seem strong enough to equate to a good legal contract, but moral obligations and legal contracts are completely separate entities. A moral obligation can be encoded into a ...

Norman Finkelstein has spent decades confronting moral compromise, exposing institutional hypocrisy, and refusing the seduction of comfort and civility in the face of atrocity. In his recent ...

First, you just can’t “diminish the ’subjective well-being’ of all the second and third children who don’t get conceived because their parents decided it wasn’t worth the trouble,” because it is a ...

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Been reading a bit about this, our new Pennsylvania Senator saying that if we gotta make a choice - we need to pay China and other bondholders before honoring government obligations to U.S. citizens: ...