Online Exclusives

Online Exclusive • 05/20/2026 • Online Essay

Trump’s Imperial Infantilism and Europe’s Failure of Moral Witness: What Arendt Can Teach us About Political (Im)Maturity

Online Exclusive • 05/14/2026 • Essay

Leverage through Complicity

The essay explores risks of the U.S. presidential pardon system, analyzing how individuals can be compelled to do bad things through complicity in wrongdoing.

Online Exclusive • 04/27/2026 • Online Essay

Humanitarian Aid for Minerals: Trump’s Transactional Statecraft and the Weaponization of Dependency

Framed as a pragmatic “America First” foreign policy, conditioning aid risks institutionalizing exploitative dynamics and contributing to human suffering under the guise of development cooperation.

Online Exclusive • 11/17/2025 • Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive • 10/30/2025 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs.

Online Exclusive • 10/23/2025 • Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive • 10/14/2025 • Online Essay

Global Ethics Day 2025: Ethics Re-envisioned

For the 12th annual Global Ethics Day, the editors of Ethics & International Affairs invited brief essays for an online roundtable on “Ethics Re-envisioned.”

Online Exclusive • 10/10/2025 • Online Essay

The Once and Future Global Ethics

Global ethics, like world order, is not the monopoly of any single nation or civilization but a shared creation.