David Carlin

People who emphatically disapprove of Donald Trump — in short, Trump-haters — are likely to be college graduates, whereas people who are quite devoted to him — Trump-lovers — are likely to lack a college degree.This differential is commonly…

It was, I suppose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau who introduced the modern world to the idea that persons from the lower ranks of society generally outrank persons from the higher and more privileged ranks in moral goodness.Rousseau had in mind a…

In the golden age of the ancient Greek city-state (polis), moral clarity was easy. It was easy for a citizen of one of these many city-states to know the difference between right and wrong. Your action was right if in…

A young woman makes a foolish marriage to an inappropriate man. Six months later, the marriage collapses. You ask her why she did this. She replies: “Temporary insanity.”Many of us, especially when young, make foolish…

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