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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

By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan

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.

By Drew Thompson

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.

By Ben Hazelton

Online Exclusive • 10/10/2025 • Online Essay

Ethical Leverage

The critical question is what leverage ethics might have in a world dominated by actors who are not so much political realists as dogmatists.

By Chandran Kukathas

Online Exclusive • 10/10/2025 • Online Essay

Ethics in a Complex World: Why Moral Clarity Is Not Simple

When acknowledging moral complexity, we do not face one simple right answer, but a field of “side-by-side” truths.

By Mathias Risse

Online Exclusive • 10/10/2025 • Online Essay

Plugging The Ethical Literacy Gap

What is needed is a real commitment to ethics literacy in the academy and in society as a whole.

By Stephen Gardiner

Online Exclusive • 07/11/2025 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

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

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Online Exclusive • 06/27/2025 • Online Essay

The Cosmic Precipice: Why Weaponizing Space Hurts Us All

Calls to weaponize space are at minimum careless and at worst actively harmful. We should protect the peaceful use of space as a global commons.

By Ann C. Thresher & Mai'a K. Davis Cross

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