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Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.
Victim anger can be useful to political struggle, but it can also become excessive and obsessive, deforming the self.
Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.
What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.
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.
Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.
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.
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