Recent Articles
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
This book will provoke the reader to think about how to bring the public sector, civil society, industry, patents, health financing, and human resources together ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
This essay focuses on two key questions: First, how do the issues of justice and fairness affect the stability, durability, and effectiveness of the nuclear ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory by Howard Williams; and Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld
These new books, by two of the foremost contemporary scholars of Kant’s political philosophy, deal extensively with the theme of international peace.
SEP 16, 2013 • Article
A Lifeline for Peace in Syria--and for Obama
Why are we so reluctant to say the following? The overriding priority is to end the killing; defanging the Syrian chemical weapons complex will be ...
SEP 13, 2013 • Journal
Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab
Many global analysts predict that the biggest security threats in the twenty-first century may center on disputes over water and the food that Earth’s ...
SEP 13, 2013 • Article
Field Trip to West Point Military Academy
After touring the academy, Carnegie New Leaders were priveleged to have a lengthy discussion with Major Fishback over dinner. This conversation provided an invaluable opportunity ...
SEP 12, 2013 • Journal
Nonproliferation: A Global Issue for a Global Ethic
This essay, focused on the continuing moral challenge of nuclear weapons, recalls the intellectual and moral lessons of the last century and identifies three leading ...
SEP 7, 2013 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Fire in the Blood"
With the tagline "Medicine, Monopoly, Malice," this powerful documentary tells how Western drug companies fought to keep discounted AIDS medications from reaching HIV-positive citizens of ...
SEP 6, 2013 • Article
Living With Injustice: Lessons from 1963
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the writing of three seminal texts in 20th century philosophy. An examination of these texts--by King, Arendt, and ...
SEP 6, 2013 • Article
Finding Our National Moral Compass on Syria
The U.S. received aid from other nations during its own Revolutionary War, and so despite all, "as America debates the pros and cons of ...