“There is simply no such thing as ‘social’ justice,” writes Jordan Peterson. “Whatever those who rely on this cliched phrase are aiming at has nothing whatsoever to do with justice. Justice is meted ...

Today is Super Tuesday, 2020, when voters in 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide who will represent the Democratic Party in the race against the current president. One issue has dominated the ...

In debates over organ markets, the so-called best option argument is often invoked to oppose prohibition. The argument stresses that for some individuals, selling a kidney would be their best ...

Like many other developing countries, the problem of inadequacy of welfare measures and core social services in Pakistan frequently baffles policymakers. The imperfect functioning of market and ...

Manuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, S.J., and Michael J. Meyer Many public policy arguments focus on fairness. Is affirmative action fair? Are congressional districts drawn to be fair? Is ...

The first challenge is deciding prospectively which groups to include to ensure a meaningful degree of diversity. No single study is likely to be large enough to encompass the full diversity of the ...

Benevolence is the humanist virtue par excellence. Influential veil-of-ignorance theories of justice, issuing from the main streams of the humanist ethics of the Enlightenment, exclude benevolence ...

In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit brought together close to 300 Black, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Asian American, and other activists ...

Utilitarianism is one of several ethical theories addressing the question of how to assess the “goodness” of any state of affairs. In the history of ideas, the most distinguished proponents and ...

THE LATEST Social Weather Stations survey figures on hunger are truly alarming. More than 20 percent of Filipino families (or more than 4 million families) have reported experiencing involuntary ...