If we want to build a healthy society in which everyone has the best possible chance to flourish, we need to be able to say that bad things are bad.
You might be thinking that this is self-evident. I’m sure readers can come up with any number of ills that should be identified, and boldly named — cancer deaths, racism, the various depredations of Donald Trump.
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