Politics

The Last Time I Saw Yaakov

No matter how political things seem, they are invariably personal.

  • Neil Gordon

Inventing Irving Howe

He yearns to be a socialist leader, a man of action, but what he loves is the Talmudic solitude of the written word.

  • Michael Greenberg

Loyalty to Humanity

Is patriotism a morally irrelevant characteristic?

  • Anthony Appiah

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Our primary allegiance should be to the community of human beings across the entire world.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
with responses from
  • Anthony Appiah
  • Harvey C. Mansfield
  • Anne Norton
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Hilary Putnam
  • Richard Sennett
  • Benjamin R. Barber
  • Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Amy Gutmann
  • Michael Dorris
  • Judith Butler
  • Leo Marx
  • Paul Berman
  • David A. Strauss
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Lloyd Rudolph
  • Michael Lerner
  • Charles Beitz
  • Rachel Hadas
  • William E. Connolly
  • Nathan Glazer
  • Charles Taylor
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Michael Walzer

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Never Trust Imperialists

What’s really at stake in debates about humanitarian intervention is not human rights, but modern imperialism.

  • Christopher Hitchens

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The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Are states moral agents?

  • Noam Chomsky

Second Proms and Second Primaries

The Limits of Majority Rule

  • Lani Guinier

The Intelligent Forty-year-old’s Guide to Rap

Rap poetry is full of cutting-edge linguistic innovations.

  • Mark Zanger

A Matter of State

On the most important treason trial in South Africa in three decades.

  • Rose Moss

An Interview with Grace Paley

Talking with the writer, teacher, and political activist.

  • Grace Paley
  • Gail Pool
  • Shirley Roses
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