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Political FiguresFebruary 7, 2022
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Gender and SexualityNovember 5, 2014
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CultureNovember 21, 2011
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BiographyOctober 12, 2011
Gandhi and South Africa
Why was Joseph Lelyveld’s history of Gandhi’s years in South Africa attacked by India’s Hindu right?
Martha C. Nussbaum
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May 25, 2011
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EconomicsApril 13, 2011
What Makes Life Good?
Measurements of economic growth fail to capture many facets of well-being.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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Gender and SexualityOctober 6, 2010
Representative Women
Christine Stansell’s The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism’s history.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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Non-fictionJuly 13, 2006
Legal Weapon
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.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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BiographyFebruary 9, 2006
In a Lonely Place
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.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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BiographyMay 19, 2005
Epistemology of the Closet
A biography of Utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick sheds new light on life in the Victorian era.
Martha C. Nussbaum