It's almost Shakespearean. Since the day he arrived in Washington, Barack Obama’s defining foreign-policy passion has been to get the…
In this essay I respond to commentators on Ethics for Enemies, including (1) Caspar Hare on torture and other harms imposed on an agent…
In an intensely competitive and interdependent global landscape, and in the face of large climate risks from ongoing U.S. reliance on a…
Who caused the Cold War? In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy downplayed the role of human agency in shaping events, writing that “a king is…
The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent…
Solar geoengineering (or Solar Radiation Management, SRM) refers to any intentional, large-scale manipulation of the Earth's incoming solar…
Seventy years later, it is what they managed to do here that is still so striking and inspiring. The greatest amphibious invasion in…
Can political philosophy be made interesting and accessible to teenage readers? The author tries to respect the intelligence of young…
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and…