It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
First published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (2007): 359-400.
Is forcing a people to be free possible, and if so, is it ever…
In recent work I have tried to revitalize the standpoint of humanity's commonly owning the earth. This standpoint has implications for a…
This article is intended for an edited volume in the series "The New Harvard Bookshelf: Towards a Liberal Education for the 21st Century."…
Robert Lieberman's critique of our work on the Israel lobby is at odds with an abundance of evidence and prior scholarship describing the…
Common Ownership of the Earth as a Non-Parochial Standpoint: A Contingent Derivation of Human Rights
The article discusses the non-parochial point of view on the common ownership of the Earth. It highlights the characteristics of human…
Among the most striking features of the political arrangements on this planet is its division into sovereign states. To be sure, in recent…
Labor rights are the first to come up for criticism when accounts of human rights are offered in response to philosophical questions about…
In The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, we argued that the "special relationship" between the United States and Israel is due largely…