Samuel Moyn | The Nation

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.

In their discussions of justice, Michael Sandel and Amartya Sen endorse communal good but slight collective endeavor.

The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's fictive memoir of a Nazi SS officer, is intentionally sickening and an unquestionably brilliant success.

A new history celebrates the nineteenth-century roots of humanitarian intervention and glosses over their imperial pretensions.