The Death of Moral Relativism

Four years before he was hoisted to Speaker of the House, a smooth-faced Representative Paul Ryan declared, â??If you ask me what the biggest problem in America is, Iâ??m not going to tell you debt, deficits, statistics, economicsâ??Iâ??ll tell you itâ??s moral relativism.â? It was a bold claim given the depth of the economic recession, which began years earlier. But Ryan was echoing the sentiments of his conservative ancestors whoâ??d made similar claims.