The other day I took a personality quiz and one of the questions was ‘do you compromise on moral issues’ (often, occasionally, rarely, never). It gave me pause to think about ‘moral compromise’ and ...

For most of this nation’s history, we have had racists who fight to ensure that Blacks are not equal partners in America. It’s what the South fought for. The cause of the Civil War was the many ...

On Three Speeches that Saved the Union, by Peter Charles Hoffer. The opening salvo in the renewed confrontation came during a routine debate over military appropriations when David Wilmot, a ...

Norman Finkelstein has spent decades confronting moral compromise, exposing institutional hypocrisy, and refusing the seduction of comfort and civility in the face of atrocity. In his recent ...

Abraham Lincoln was a man who believed in compromise. When he was practicing law in Illinois, a farmer asked for Lincoln’s help in getting a divorce from his wife. Lincoln asked, “What seems to be the ...

At the heart of the public debate over the latest twists and turns in the Trump administration's ongoing discussions with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators is a fundamental moral question on which ...

What does it mean to defend liberal democracy in a world shaped by power, domination, and moral compromise? In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Washington Post columnist and ...