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...

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

The concept of a right, and the idea of human rights, were familiar abstractions on the brink of ...

In relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-con...

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...

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

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

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”

Jan Eckel teaches history at the University of Freiburg. Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and Histor...

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

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

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9 11, we ...

The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

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