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To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Walter Johnson

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This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.

Donna Murch

Racial capitalism brings us back to the idea of dehumanization.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Marx is thoroughly and consistently humanist.

Peter Linebaugh

Human rights can be allies in the fight for human justice.

Roberto Gargarella

Racial capitalism has a lineage that predates Cedric Robinson.

Peter James Hudson

To dismiss human rights is to ignore black liberation struggles.

Manisha Sinha

Some future version of human rights might escape its current limitations.

Samuel Moyn

The enslaved human should be central to our analysis of commodity form.

Stephanie Smallwood

The political ideology of slaveholders depended on liberal humanism.

Andrew Zimmerman

Humanity forms the beating heart of black liberation struggles.

Peniel Joseph

We need a restoration of historical thinking.

N. D. B. Connolly

Final Response: Going beyond liberal notions of justice.

Walter Johnson

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Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

Jedediah Purdy

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The Lure of Luxury

Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.

Paul Bloom

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Anxieties of Democracy

Democracy no longer has rivals, but its fairness and effectiveness face skepticism.

Ira Katznelson

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The Logic of Effective Altruism

A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

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Curbing the New Corporate Power

Consumer prices are not the only concern raised by dominant companies.

K. Sabeel Rahman

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France After Charlie Hebdo

France's own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.

John Bowen

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Ferguson Won't Change Anything. What Will?

Michael Brown shouldn't be a poster child for social justice movements.

Glenn C. Loury

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Against Empathy

Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.

Paul Bloom

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Build the Green Economy

1.2% of the GDP. That's all it would take to green the economy.

Robert Pollin

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Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

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How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Since the 1980s, financial market pressures have driven companies to hive off activities that sustained manufacturing.

Suzanne Berger

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