When the public intellectual talks of his moral compass, he is most likely using an inappropriate metaphor which fails to convey the true nature of his moral sense. Almost certainly a more apt metaphor would be that of a moral weather-vane, being that he is more concerned to see which way the wind is blowing.
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To adapt a saying of the Austrian cardinal Pell: Yer conscience is like a wristwatch. If you don't set it by the speaking clock (the natural law) you might as well throw it away.
Perhaps a yet more apt metaphor would be that of a moral sonar, being that he is more concerned to see just how shallow he can get away with.
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