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Online Exclusive 02/27/2026 Blog

What We've Been Reading

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 10/23/2025 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 08/21/2019 Blog

The Ethics of Trade with China and Authoritarian Upgrading

In an earlier posting, I discussed some of the ethical frameworks for assessing the trade war with China, themes that were expanded upon in a ...

Online Exclusive 08/19/2019 Blog

Beyond Trump

Online Exclusive 08/19/2019 Blog

Ethical Considerations in a Trade War with China

Are there ethical considerations that need to be factored in as part of assessing the merits of a "trade war" with the People's Republic of ...

Online Exclusive 07/30/2019 Blog

Democratic Candidates and Foreign Policy

Online Exclusive 07/24/2019 Essay

Sri Lanka 2.0: Independent Inquiry Shows UN “Systemic Failure” in Myanmar

A recent independent inquiry into the involvement of the UN in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018 assigns collective responsibility for the atrocities committed during the 2017 Rohingya crisis ...