History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

Greatness in history isn’t about goodness — it’s about impact. Some people reshaped borders, beliefs, and human behavior ...

We tend to talk about wealth in economic terms—tax policy, markets, incentives—but rarely in moral ones. In an age that idolizes accumulation, posing moral limits threatens to expose something we’d ...

Lessons from World War II. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is a powerful history of the Soviet and Nazi political mass murders from 1933 to 1945 in the contiguous area from central Poland to western ...

Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders ...

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...

A moral history of WWII would be brief, said one wit, but respected British historian Burleigh (Blood Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism) delivers a long, riveting account of awful events and the ...

A fresco of an early Christian baptism, found in the crypt of Santa Prisca in Rome (Wikimedia Commons). A confession: Rarely do I treat a book as rudely as I did the latest from James Keenan, S.J., A ...