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Prospect magazine has named Professor Samuel Moyn one of its Top Thinkers for 2024.

...only by passing through a new aesthetic condition, induced by aesthetic experience and creative activity, can humanity hope to respond adequately or appropriately to our current predicament.

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

<p>"I also discovered Tolstoy developed a set of disquieting worries about making war humane that have turned out to be prophetic of our partial success in doing so in our time."</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

<p>"I also discovered Tolstoy developed a set of disquieting worries about making war humane that have turned out to be prophetic of our partial success in doing so in our time."</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Introduction  As the U.S. and other Western nations announced diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) frequently exhorted the international community to keep politics out of the games (People’s Daily, December 8, 2021). Spokespersons of the Beijing Organizing Committee also objected to the “politicization” of the Olympic Games, and claimed that the closed …

In 2015, a young girl and her father crossed into the United States from the border with Mexico. Astrid and Arturo, K’iche’ Indians from Guatemala, were fleeing the systematic discrimination and violence their people have suffered for decades.

Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War argues that efforts to make war more ethical have failed.

In the early 1980s, while living in exile in West Germany, the late dissident Soviet astrophysicist Kronid Lyubarsky participated in a survey for a magazine about life in the Soviet Union. One question asked what the most productive US policy towards the USSR would be. “Firm pressure” on the Soviet Union to initiate domestic changes, was Lyubarsky’s response, adding that the US would need “patience in following this line since it doesn’t lead to immediate success”. I thought of Ly...