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Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Law School and the Philosophy Department. Her latest book is Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. (November 2023).
Where the Orcas Swim
The death that humans inflict on whales today has little to do with demand for meat or blubber. We may think of whaling as a bygone practice, but it is ongoing, pervasive, and implicates us all.
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
by Ryan Tucker Jones
Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest
by Nora Nickum
Sonic Sea
a documentary film written by Mark Monroe and directed by Michelle Dougherty and Daniel Hinerfeld
We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility
by Michael J. Moore
November 2, 2023 issue
What We Owe Our Fellow Animals
Can we develop a theory of justice that encompasses nonhuman animals?
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
by Frans de Waal
Dolphin Communication and Cognition: Past, Present, and Future
edited by Denise L. Herzing and Christine M. Johnson
Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
edited by Janet Mann
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
by Carl Safina
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
March 10, 2022 issue
Disabled Lives: Who Cares?
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
by Eva Feder Kittay
Life As We Know It:A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
by Michael Bérubé
Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It
by Joan Williams
January 11, 2001 issue
Feminists and Philosophy
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity
edited by Louise M. Antony, edited by Charlotte Witt
October 20, 1994 issue
Recoiling from Reason
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
by Alasdair MacIntyre
December 7, 1989 issue
Undemocratic Vistas
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
by Allan Bloom
November 5, 1987 issue
Sex in the Head
Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic
by Roger Scruton
December 18, 1986 issue
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