Ethics

Tolkien and Lucas have tales of myth, but they have been so popular because their themes resonate so clearly with real life.

With the lines between good and evil portrayed as ever blurrier, distinguishing heroes, villains, and anti-heroes is critical

There is a power in moral clarity that Reagan understood well.

The Christian challenge is to identify a role for good government to restrain evil alongside other God-given institutions while at the same time establishing robust means to check the evil of government.

Thomism and liberalism are not hopeless enemies: a review of The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas

In “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,” Samuel Moyn forces readers to ask whether America’s shift toward “humane” war has a dark side.

Integrity involves the consistency of our moral beliefs and our behavior. But the necessary content of those beliefs are not up to us.

The key to a nations ability to administer authority is an understanding among its individual leaders that theirs is not the ultimate authority. And the key to a nation’s ability to harbor morality is an understanding among its individual leaders that their common sense is not the ultimate source of morality. 

Can a Christian support using sleep deprivation against known terrorists to gain valuable intelligence that could save lives?