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Should we judge people for their past moral failings?

  • Written by Andrew Khoury, Instructor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, accompanied by his wife, speaks during a news conference.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing a controversy after a photograph surfaced from his medical school yearbook showing one person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. The media alleged the governor was the one in...

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