Recent Articles
SEP 11, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Why Isn't Food a Public Good?
What would the world look like if we were to treat food as a public good or commons and not merely as a commodity?
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Mary Dudziak on Civil Liberties During WWI and Beyond
For Dudziak, "Just as the nation is perpetually focused on security, we must also be perpetually focused on maintaining constitutional liberty."
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Dawning of an Earth Ethic
So far we have failed to act on the scale or with the urgency required to avert the unfolding disaster of climate change. Why are ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Ethical Enhancement in an Age of Climate Change
The world is dashing toward greater and more devastating climate intensification. Nonetheless, opportunities for moral action abound.
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations
The climate problem is usually misdiagnosed as a traditional tragedy of the commons, but this obscures two deeper and distinctively ethical challenges. We must call ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Moral Collapse in a Warming World
When it comes to climate change, moral corruption prevails not because the situation is inherently murky, but because confusion has been deliberately sown.
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Three Questions on Climate Change
Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Changing Ethics of Climate Change
Traditional framings of climate change action being about future generations or simply another dimension of the North-South divide in global geopolitics are not irrelevant today, ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
A "Natural" Proposal for Addressing Climate Change
One of the fundamental challenges of climate change is that we contribute to it increment by increment, and experience it increment by increment after a ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Drones, Risk, and Perpetual Force
How should we conceptualize the use of missile-equipped uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) in the U.S. “war on terror”? If violence of this ...