The word evil — brandished so often by George W. Bush and just as regularly scorned by those who oppose him — could use some serious parsing. It is possible that neither side in the debate about evil ...

I am confident that most of you reading this article would consider behavior such as rape, murder, torture, and genocide to be acts of evil. If we agree that these are indeed acts of evil, does it ...

Oxford Languages defines the word “evil” as “profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.” The definition suggests that some behaviors are not of this world; ...

The problem with the word evil is that it scares us away before we can even stop to consider what we are saying. It is a word meant to distance us from it so that we don't have to consider it any ...

In December 2024, Iranian authorities introduced a law that, according to Amnesty International, “permits the imposition of the death penalty for peaceful activism against Iran’s discriminatory ...

One definition of the word “evil” as taken from the American Heritage Dictionary is “Morally bad or wrong; wicked.” This can be said about a lot of things, but two things come to mind that exemplify ...