Human rights

Global Justice, Politics

Syria’s Red Line

The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.

Jeanne Guillemin

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Empire's Wasteland

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Elizabeth Anderson visits Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society to discuss objections to slavery and their implications for our understanding of equality.

Elizabeth Anderson

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Elizabeth Anderson discusses her Wesson Lecture on slavery, emancipation and equality with BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen and historian David Hollinger.

Elizabeth Anderson, Joshua Cohen, David Hollinger

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell

Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Direct Expression

The Russian dissident poet Kirill Medvedev struggles to craft a new left that is independent of the history of the Soviet Union.

Emma Goldhammer

Global Justice, Law & Justice

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

Karin Andert, Niko Kohls

Only Four Steps

Photo: Courtesy of Herman's House   Alongside the death penalty, we have invented a new form

Colin Dayan

The Ongoing Struggle for Recognition

Flickr (cc)   While the Supreme Court’s decisions on same-sex marriage have caused

Mary Lyndon Shanley

A Devilish Way of Thinking

Above: Restraint chair used for forced enteral feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Wikimedia   For

Colin Dayan

Transparent Citizens, Invisible Government

President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act into law, October 26, 2001 (White

Elaine Scarry

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M. Locke visits Brown's Watson Institute to discuss the ideas from his recent forum essay Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Richard M. Locke