WWABS?

The results of a recent poll, we are told, augur a fundamental shift in the American public's moral philosophy: three years ago, a majority of Americans believed in absolute, acontextual standards of right and wrong; today, that majority, by a slim margin, inclines toward casuistry. What would Allan Bloom say? He was decrying creeping, postmodern moral relativism back in the eighties, when we were apparently still moral absolutists...