Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts blickten viele Liberale missmutig auf die Welt der Moderne mit ihren v...

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today¿s idealistic millions hold dear. ...

¿No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.¿¿Adam Kir...

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As ...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War,...

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citiz...

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts...

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”

The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralis...

Where did human rights come from? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has...

No matter who wins the next election, Caesar will remain Caesar, doing some good and some bad. Bu...

In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II w...

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis   “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin...