I recently watched Nuremberg, the stunning new film about the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trial. Chief among the tranche of top Nazi leaders indicted for crimes against humanity was Hermann Goering, ...
They told this lie in an altruistic attempt to spare the elderly woman the emotional pain of learning that her son was dying. Was that lie morally acceptable? From their consequentialist perspective, ...
There are moments in history when a nation faces a reckoning with itself. For America, that moment began the day Donald J. Trump was elected president. It wasn’t a policy debate, but a coordinated ...
I discovered my first Great Lie in third grade. We took 100-question timed math quizzes on Fridays, and I was determined to win the much-coveted prize: a trip to the front of the room to pick a round ...