Law

The Right to Choose Death?

A moral argument for the permissibility of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

  • F. M. Kamm

Democracy and Positive Liberty

Can liberal constitutional theory make space for the positive aspect of political freedom?

  • Frank Michelman

Atrocities

World War II ended the tradition of civilian immunity. We’ve been living with the consequences ever since.

  • Allan Forbes

Force Without Reason

Why does needless military spending remain impervious to reduction, while critically needed domestic programs are slashed?

  • Randall Forsberg

Who Cares About Voting Rights?

Better procedures are unlikely to solve the problems of racial politics.

  • Mark Tushnet

Wasting Billions

Cooperative Security: The Military Problem.

  • Randall Forsberg

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Never Trust Imperialists

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

  • Christopher Hitchens

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Are states moral agents?

  • Noam Chomsky

The Power of Rights

The only thing the disenfranchised need as badly as rights is absolute clear-sightedness about power.

  • Wendy Brown

After the Cold War: The North/South Divide

A roundtable with Randall Forsberg.

  • Randall Forsberg
with responses from
  • Joshua Cohen
  • Eqbal Ahmad
  • Jagat Mehta
  • Alan K. Henrickson

Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy?

We need a system of free expression that is both old and new.

  • Cass Sunstein

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

  • Betty Sosnin

Homelands

Behind South Africa’s battle lines.

  • Adam Hochschild

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

  • Walter Kendrick

Embattled Lebanon

For the last ten years, the country has been held hostage by its own people and by regional wars and revolutions.

  • Sherman Teichman

The Only Way to Survive

The long-lasting social and psychological effects of the bomb.

  • Robert Jay Lifton

First Victims, Last Hope

On publishers and writers in the struggle for human rights.

  • Jacobo Timerman
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