Subramaniam Vincent is director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. While it may be fashionable to say that dignity as ...

One modern advocacy group, Reproductive Freedom for All, states that it fights for “reproductive freedom for everybody.” But who do we mean by “everybody”? Does freedom for some come at the cost of ...

Subramaniam Vincent is director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. Human dignity is a widely cherished ideal and ...

Dignitas Infinita, the new declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), affirms that “every human person possesses an infinite dignity” and enumerates assaults on that dignity, ...

Upon the recent death of the conservative British historian Paul Johnson, the right-wing journal Public Discourse praised Johnson as the “historian of human dignity.” Another recent piece in the ...

This month, we mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does have an odd tendency to create striking ...

I have long argued that we want to create health so we can create opportunities for people to live, rather than the other way around. But this definition elides something important: I think our role ...