Rushworth Moulton Kidder (May 8, 1944 – March 5, 2012) was an American author, ethicist, and professor.
Kidder founded the Institute for Global Ethics in 1990, and is the author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living.
He worked as a columnist and editor for The Christian Science Monitor.
Kidder earned a doctorate from Columbia University in English and comparative literature[1][2] and wrote the foreword to Compassion Wins, by Godfrey John.
[3] He wrote an award winning five-part series on quantum physics in 1988, and his writings appeared in the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Best Newspaper Writing collection.