Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum, a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, is the author of numerous books, most recently Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Harvard University Press). She is also the author of Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton).

Currently

  • Legal Weapon

    July 13, 2006

    International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the hypocrisy of not extending the same protection to women.

  • In a Lonely Place

    February 9, 2006

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton's legacy as both an admirable revolutionary and a profound thinker is brought to life in Vivian Gornick's The Solitude of Self.

2005

  • Epistemology of the Closet

    May 19, 2005

    A biography of Utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick sheds new light on life in the Victorian era.

2002

2001

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» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
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