Samuel Moyn | The Nation

Immigration, second-class wages, torture and taboo

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?

Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

Why does John Ikenberry think the sorrows of liberal internationalism are temporary?

In Bloodlands Timothy Snyder attempts to link the Holocaust to a syndrome of political killing endorsed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.

Jonathan Israel's epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.