Paul Bloomfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and specializes in moral philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of Moral Reality (2001), The Virtues of Happiness (2014), the editor of Morality and Self-Interest (2008), and the co-editor, with David Copp, of The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism (2023). Email: phsb [at] uconn.edu
by Paul Bloomfield Marcus Aurelius wrote, “The best revenge is to not be like your enemy”. All ought to heed this wisdom: the right and the left, across classes, races, religions, and cultures, in personal life, politics, and war. Don’t be like the people you despise. Sounds easy, right? One thing everyone has in common…
by Paul Bloomfield The decision guaranteeing abortion rights in the United States, found in Roe v. Wade (1973), was based on a right to privacy, which the court found to be primarily protected by the Fourteenth amendment's "concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action" and the Ninth amendment's "reservation of rights to the…
by Paul Bloomfield Back in August, in Reno, Hillary Clinton described the “alt-right” ideology as one that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism, and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity”. The alt-right movement owes a great deal to Jared Taylor, who founded the American Renaissance website 25 years ago. Taylor is a self-described…