It’s true that the word “virtue,” with connotations of self-sacrifice and Victorian morality, can be rather off-putting. Yet, for many ancient Greeks and Romans—Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics ...

Virtue signaling is a newish term for moralizing, getting on our high horse, and claiming we’re more moral than other people, the low-life people out there who we gossip and snark about. Moralizing is ...