Donald Trump just can’t help himself. Shortly after the violent clashes last month in Charlottesville, where a demonstrator was killed by a neo-Nazi, Trump seemed to equate white supremacists with the ...

In the early 1970s, renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Cultures. The book was widely read throughout the social sciences and humanities, ...

The jihadist murder of Jacques Hamel marked the end of innocence in the 21st-century Christian West. It is the first time Islamic State jihadists have entered a Western church to kill a priest.

East Asia Forum has published an article written by Patrick Chin-Dahler on the debate between universal human rights, cultural relativism and the Asian values. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...

Most of you, no doubt, have heard the term “moral relativism.” Moral relativism is the belief that that are no “universal or absolute moral principles” and that essentially anyone’s values are as good ...

A central argument of this article is that Isaiah Berlin's notion of cultural pluralism can be described as relativistic, and that he should not have repudiated the relativism, but simply defended it ...

The former prefect of the papal household and longtime personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI drew deeply on the late ...

Here's the thing about whataboutism: It is not a way of elevating the discourse, but of making more than one offensive action inherently relative, and thus excusable. Take, for instance, the White ...