“Freedom, ‘I’dom, ‘Me’dom, where’s your ‘We’dom?” It’s an unequivocal call for compassion, sympathy and solidarity. Pop artist M.I.A.’s seemingly stoic but nonetheless fierce mien prefaces a stark ...

I wrote this essay with Anthony Evans and Gideon Goldin. It is common to think that emotions interfere with rational thinking. Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite ...

In his Jan. 31 op-ed, “The Ayn Rand Contradiction,” Rainer Zitelmann writes: “Her cultural significance comes not from her powers of rationality but rather her appeals to morals and emotions.” This ...

If you’re bilingual, moral choices can often feel more urgent and emotionally charged in one language yet distant and rational in another. This raises an intriguing question: does language merely ...