Chris Christie poised to momentarily stop eating donuts and veto NJ gay-marriage bill

Looks like New Jersey will be the next state to step into modernity, but only for a mome...

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Crawl to the Ethical Wall

I think most of us believe that being wholly moral isn't particularly easy. When we look to certain people as moral paragons, and ask ourselves "could I be like her?" we tend to respond: hell no. Sure certain ethical behaviors are pretty easy, for example...

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You Kant be Serious!

(A quick note about the title of this post: this play on words is completely novel; endemic to my mind alone, marvel at it.) I've always been interested in the role that motivation ought to play in our moral assessments of any given person's actions. It has always seemed to me that answers to questions like: Why did this person act as they did? or:...

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