Author: Samuel Moyn

The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major pre...

The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major pre...

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis   “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post  “A fascinating and combative intellectu...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any ...

No matter who wins the next election, Caesar will remain Caesar, doing some good and some bad. But Christians report to a different king. This iss...

“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in...