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JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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.
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
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 ...
JUN 11, 2015 • Podcast
Why We Cheat: Stories of Dishonesty and Human Nature from Dan Ariely and Others
In this last installment of our three-part series on workplace ethics in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we take an honest look at cheating. According to ...
JUN 11, 2015 • Podcast
Agenda for the Future: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
"Our planet is indivisible. There is no longer such a thing as a small, faraway country. No such thing as an acceptable level of discrimination, ...