Samuel Moyn

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

Three years later, amid another national election, the American public is still slow to understand the enormity of January 6, 2021.

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

There are certainly good grounds to criticize Cold War liberalism. But Samuel Moyn's new book, like similar critiques, has a classic baby-bathwater problem.

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

A response to Samuel Moyn’s “Resisting the Juristocracy.”

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?