Articles — The Revealer

Review

Moral Luck and the Fantasy of Fascism

February 9, 2017

Liane Carlson on dreams of moral clarity and why we need them.

In the News: Profiling, Prince, Peaceniks and more!

May 2, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

Moral Ambivalence in Modern China

March 2, 2012

From The Lancet, an article by Charles Stafford on Deep China: the Moral Life of the Person, a...

Not all Sex is a Scandal

November 19, 2011

Cain, Sandusky, Catholic Priests. Sex has been in the headlines a lot lately. But some important distinctions...

Saved and Sacked; Fruits and Roots

August 18, 2011

Taking a qeue from William James (and the bible), David Bromwich asks if it's too late to examine...

Death Squad Morality

February 7, 2006

07 February 2006 The New York Times’ Benedict Carey reports on the innate human capacity for “moral disengagement,” an adaptable...

In Defense of Relativism

February 3, 2006

03 February 2006 Austin Dacey, in one half of a pair of New York Times op-ed responses to Pope Benedict XVI’s new God-is-Love...

Daily Links 17 December 2004

December 17, 2004

Just Like a Greek Tragedy Not content with proving the existence of God, Google aims to recreate His mind. Mob Morality Stoner...

Daily Links 14 November 2004

November 14, 2004

Bar Mitzvah Lessons (Not) Learned Hasdai Westbrook, on Bar Mitzvah lessons: “Mr. Wolf fixed his gaze on me. ‘I...

Feature

Gay Marriage, GOP Secret Weapon

November 5, 2004

Gay Marriage, GOP Secret Weapon 05 November 2004 Was the “moral value” of homophobia this election’s X-factor? By Jeff...

Fashionable Madmen

June 10, 2004

“That the ethic of conscience is intrinsically insidious seems scarcely a revelatory point, but it is one raised with...

The Difficulties of Genocide

April 9, 2004

On the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet looks at the memorials and morality tales on offer...