Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her many books include The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom.
Plato and the Poets
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
The Racist Foundation of Nuclear Architecture
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Sleeping Through the Alarm
With virtually no democratic oversight and over 6,500 missiles in the United States alone, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable.
On the Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons
What differentiates the crimes of a terrorist, hacker, or non-state actor from those of a president who launches a nuclear weapon?
The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy
To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.
Extreme Injury
Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.
The Obligation to Prosecute
Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.
Presidential Crimes
The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.
