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Personal action on climate still has a place – but it works far better with institutional backing
Too much virtue language in a listing can cost an Airbnb host nearly $5,000 a year.
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
A new study finds that investors punish companies for behaving badly over three times as much if they have a record of saying they’re virtuous.
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a divided US.





