The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World by Miller, Christian B.
The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World by Miller, Christian B.

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World

Honesty is our most treasured virtue. Research has found that honesty is the single most important characteristic...
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Author: Christian B. Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World by Miller, Christian B.

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World

$56.90
The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World by Miller, Christian B.

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World

$56.90
Author: Christian B. Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Honesty is our most treasured virtue. Research has found that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and understanding them. But honesty is eroding at a frightening rate in many areas of society today, as we are confronted with a number of honesty crises. The frequency of deepfakes has skyrocketed, now that they are simple to make and untraceable. In our relationships, with the easy availability of online pornography, anonymous chatrooms, and infidelity websites like Ashley Madison, cheating in a relationship has never been easier. In education, many students are using AI to complete their writing assignments with little chance of detection. In politics, social media helps with the dissemination of fake news, and polarization reduces our tendency to condemn political dishonesty if it aligns with our own views. In public spaces, it is easier to become a celebrity than it has ever been in human history, and yet celebrity encourages greater dishonesty. In religion, religious leaders are increasingly confronted by temptations to plagiarize sermon material from the Internet and AI.

Christian Miller's The Honesty Crisis diagnoses this problem across a range of social phenomena, drawing on his years of research, and makes the case that the stakes are higher than we realize. Proposing concrete solutions, Miller's urgent and timely book will interest anyone concerned about the moral character of our world, and its future.

Author: Christian B. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.86w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780197840801


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2026

About the Author
Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is the author of over 130 articles as well as Moral Psychology (2021) and four books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021). He is a contributor for Forbes, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Thanks to a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, he directed The Honesty Project, one of the largest research initiatives ever undertaken on honesty.
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