The man sitting in front of me is a mass murderer. He is a serial rapist and a torturer. We are chatting about the weather, his family, his childhood. We are sharing drinks and exchanging gifts. The ...

She wants her course to be timely. But Angela Feres had a pained look Wednesday when she stepped before her students at San Diego State University to talk about the nature of evil. "This is another ...

This month, in a question suggested by Barbara Best, we asked our readers how their faith helps them to understand and deal with evil in the world. Here is what you had to say: Faith exists as a tiny ...

As Hannah Arendt foresaw, we are once again up against the question of evil. An American photojournalist, James Foley, was presented to the camera and methodically decapitated. The instrument was not ...

To the editor: I was shocked when I read the letter from a local teacher who advocated "understanding" terrorists. I respect Adam M. Cox's idealism, but he is absolutely wrong. It is clear that ...

I agree with Pat Lane’s letter to the editor regarding the killing of Osama bin Laden and the celebrations that followed (Teaching Right and Wrong, The Union, May 12). As Pat Lane suggested, children ...

Yes, Virginia, there is goodness in people as represented by Santa Claus, but there are also people who do evil things. When I began working as a psychotherapist more years ago than I care to admit, I ...

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it. The world was blindsided by World War II and the abject horrors of the Holocaust because it didn’t understand the evil ...