Across media, both social and legacy, commentators bemoan nihilism as the force that got us into today's mess. It's not.

According to science, we tend to see ourselves through rose-tinted glasses and forgive ourselves a lot more than we should. And that can be a real problem.

Pope Ratzinger is giving up his post. This is by far the best and only morally correct thing he did as pope.

Researchers show that far more of us than we'd admit would harm a stranger for the promise of cold, hard cash.

Some things are objectively evil. Others? Not so much...