Samuel Moyn | The Nation

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.

Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.