Law professor and philosopher Martha Nussbaum discussed the benefits of giving animals legal rights and representation in courts during a special segment of MSNBC’s "The Beat with Ari Melber" Monday.

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum has made a generous gift to support roundtable discussions at the University of Chicago Law School, focusing on issues that can be challenging and often polarizing. Nussbaum’s ...

Martha Craven Nussbaum is on sabbatical this year, which means she does not have a lot of free time. Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of an online discussion with Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law ...

Amid a flailing economy at home and continuing U.S. military engagement abroad, issues of sexuality retain a prominent place on the American political agenda. Do Americans simply have a prurient ...

In the Purgatorio, Virgil leads Dante upwards. A series of terraces correspond to the seven deadly sins. At each, souls work on understanding their ethical flaws. First is the terrace of pride. There, ...

Law professor and philosopher Martha Nussbaum discussed the benefits of giving animals legal rights and representation in courts during a special segment of MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” Monday.

Martha Nussbaum will probably not win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. There are politics to the prize, and the internet’s consensus is that the winner will not come from a North American or ...

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum on Oct. 30 was named the winner of the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, a $1 million award given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human ...

In her brilliant new book, The Cosmopolitan Tradition, Martha Nussbaum argues for an even more thrilling vision: the whole biosphere conceived and treated as a “cosmic city,” in which humans carefully ...

What is the right way to age? It’s a question that isn’t explored enough in American society, where, seemingly, people are expected to be forever young, until, suddenly, they are not. Reflecting this ...