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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

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 12/18/2008 Essay

Michael Goodhart Replies to Eva Erman

Erman's reaction shows that she misses the main point at issue. She insists that democracy means "rule by the people"; I define it as a ...

Online Exclusive 12/18/2008 Essay

On Goodhart's Global Democracy (A Critique)

In this critique of Michael Goodhart's "Human Rights and Global Democracy," Eva Erman argues that Goodhart has reconceptualized democracy and therefore does not offer a ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

Torture Can Be Self-Defense: A Critique of Whitley Kaufman

In this online response, Uwe Steinhoff argues that Whitley Kaufman's denial that torturing the "ticking bomb terrorist" can be justifiable is incorrect.

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

The Distributive Justice Theory of Self-Defense (Response to Whitley Kaufman)

Segev argues for a theory of distributive justice and considers its implications. This theory includes a principle of responsibility that was endorsed by others within ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

On U.S. Plans to Deploy ABM Systems in Europe and Possible Compromise Solutions

Petr Romashkin and Pavel Zolotarev argue that the current state of Russian-U.S. relations in the area of missile defense cannot be evaluated without taking ...