Matt Peterson is an editor at The Atlantic and former managing editor of World Politics Review.
Prior to joining World Politics Review, he worked as a fellow in Yale University's Global Justice Program. Peterson has also worked at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Canberra, and was assistant editor of Carnegie Council's journal, Ethics & International Affairs, from 2005-2007.
Featured Work
AUG 13, 2010 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions
Joy Gordon's new book "Invisible War" describes a superpower run amok. The international sanctions on Iraq were the strictest ever imposed. The tremendous damage that ...
JUN 23, 2010 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Matthew Rimmer on Intellectual Property and Clean Technology
Matthew Rimmer discusses intellectual-property policy for clean technologies. How do we both create new technologies and spread them as widely as possible? We need climate-friendly ...
JUN 1, 2010 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Sarah Holcombe on Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
What rules should govern business and academic interactions with so-called traditional knowledge? Sarah Holcombe examines questions of knowledge management, intellectual property rights, and research ethics ...
MAY 17, 2010 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Anne Phillips on Ownership and the Body
Is the human body a piece of property? We object to the sale of whole human beings, but what about cases where a person merely ...
NOV 3, 2009 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration and Citizenship
From education and health care, to access to credit and the rule of law, a host of factors that influence quality of life depend simply ...
OCT 7, 2009 • Podcast
Hilary Charlesworth on Bills of Rights
What does a country gain by enacting a bill of rights? Do countries that lack bills of rights, like Australia, protect human rights as well ...
AUG 22, 2009 • Podcast
Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases
Can we infringe individual rights to promote public health? Should, say, people be allowed to decide for themselves when they are too infectious to get ...
JUL 8, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: American Sugar Policy Leaves a Sour Taste
As evidenced by the minor flap last week over the tariff provision that snuck into the American Clean Energy and Security Act, trade decisions are ...
APR 24, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run
The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better ...
APR 3, 2009 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: David Singh Grewal on Network Power
To explain how power can be at work in apparently voluntary processes, Grewal introduces the concept of "network power." He argues that this dynamic drives ...