The continued practice of branding other countries and peoples collectively guilty for past or ongoing crimes has not abated. The imposition of collective punishment in the form of mass expulsions, ...

President Biden came to Tulsa, Okla., to fill the silence and speak to our guilt. He came to give a full account of America’s story and to remind us that we have to contend with every piece of it; we ...

Professor Leon van Vuuren holds the position of executive: organisational ethics at The Ethics Institute. He is an adjunct professor in organisational psychology at the University of Cape Town and an ...

Recent talk of travel restrictions for all Russians has produced a debate about the morality of such a step. Is it right for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opponents to be lumped together with ...

We are living in a very unsettled and troubled time, one that appears to be marked more by division than unity. Good intentions notwithstanding, it is becoming increasingly apparent that polarizing ...

Vladislav Inozemtsev is a Russian academic and the director of the Moscow-based Center for Research on Post-Industrial Studies. In a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service, the veteran ...

We are living in a very unsettled and troubled time, one that appears to be marked more by division than unity. Good intentions notwithstanding, it is becoming increasingly apparent that polarizing ...

Germans call it die unbewältigte Vergangenheit — the undigested past. By that, they mean the national burden of collective guilt from the Hitler years, which saw Germany start the largest war and ...

The Internet is a tricky beast. Sitting alone, cozy in ragged sweatpants, writing while curled on the couch, it’s easy to believe that you’re cloaked in isolation, even as you spill on that most ...

It was was one of ancient Greece’s worst punishments. In cases of political assassinations or high treason, the citizens’ assembly could deliver a sentence of kataskaphê, the destruction of the ...