Recent Articles
MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France by Jennifer Pitts
Jennifer Pitts asserts that imperialism was not essential to the liberal project, as is so often alleged by its critics, most recently and systematically by ...
MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol C. Gould
Although the focus of "Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights" is practical, Gould does not shy away from hard theoretical questions, such as the relentless debate ...
MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon's fundamental claim is that the violence and abuse routinely inflicted on women by men is not treated with the same seriousness accorded to ...
MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
These two books are the inaugural releases in Norton's Issues of Our Time series, but they are linked by much more than this fact. Each ...
MAR 21, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Building The Village Education Project
After teaching elementary school for ten weeks in a small village in rural Ecuador, I came away from the experience with a lot more than ...
MAR 20, 2007 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Christopher Tyerman, "God's War: A New History of the Crusades"
Tyerman lays out the New Testament tradition at the beginning of his treatise on the Crusades, raising the immediate question: how did Crusaders manage to ...
MAR 19, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Want to Expand the Middle Class? Improve Low-Wage Jobs
Progressives aren't alone in worrying about the widening income gap these days. Even Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke expresses concern. Much of the focus has ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Argentina, the Church, and the Debt
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Risks of Lending and Liability to Others
This essay analyzes why risk and liability are necessary mechanisms of well-functioning markets, and discusses how risk can be handled. In the U.S., inappropriate ...