A friend of mine recently commented that the ‘social’ justice movement in America is alive and well, and that great things have been happening. It then occurred to me, when you put any word in front ...

“To the victim, justice is a guilty verdict,” said defense attorney Michael Moscowitz. “Justice to the defendant is a not guilty verdict.” He was speaking aloud the logic of an adversarial criminal ...

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A number of years ago this space entertained an interesting thought. If it is necessary to add an adjective to “justice,” then we were experiencing a distortion of reality and perhaps even the ...

Full disclosure: One of us works—and the other one did—in an applied ethics center. The definition and the role of ethics are, therefore, deeply important to us. We are fully aware, however, of the ...