Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review
Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future by Dale Jamieson
Jamieson is interested in the real rather than the ideal world. The result is a book that is uncommonly accessible to nonspecialists, and will resonate ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Feature
Just War Theory and the Last of Last Resort
Last resort should be jettisoned from the just war tradition because adhering to it can require causing or allowing severe harms to a greater number ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Essay
Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies
JIM SLEEPER Is anything in liberal education nonnegotiable? With numerous expansions abroad, American universities are testing these limits.
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review Essay
Human Rights Law Without Natural Moral Rights
In his latest work, Allen Buchanan outlines a novel framework for assessing the system of international human rights law—the system that he takes to ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Where did strong, adaptable, accountable states come from, and why do some countries have them and others do not? Fukuyama discusses three main paths to ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review
The Ethics of Immigration by Joseph Carens
The current ethical debate about the legitimacy of migration controls would not exist but for Joseph Carens' writing. At last the book-length version of his ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Feature
The Idea of Universality in the Sustainable Development Goals
Despite an apparent “emerging consensus that the post-2015 agenda should be universal,” there is less agreement over what universality means, and how this demand should ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Essay
Against Moral Absolutism: Surveillance and Disclosure After Snowden
RAHUL SAGAR Now that the uproar provoked by the disclosure of the NSA surveillance programs has lessened and Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have had ...
Online Exclusive • 06/8/2015 • Blog
Ethical Choices for a Superpower
As U.S. presidential candidates begin to lay out their visions for foreign policy, it will be critical to understand the ethical foundations for their ...