Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn, who teaches European history at Columbia University, is the author of two books. Most recently, he edited Pierre Rosanvallon: Democracy Past and Future (Columbia). He is currently working on a book about human rights in the recent period.

Currently

  • Spectacular Wrongs

    September 24, 2008 Subscribe

    A new history celebrates the nineteenth-century roots of humanitarian intervention and glosses over their imperial pretensions.

2007

  • On the Genealogy of Morals

    March 29, 2007

    Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.

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