Martha Nussbaum, a law and ethics professor at the University of Chicago, today received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for her book Cultivating Humanity: A Classical ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Martha Nussbaum, a distinguished philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago, gave a lecture on the topic of “Anger and Revolutionary Justice,” on Nov. 3. The event took place in the ...

New Hampshire state Rep. Nancy Elliott, at a recent state Judiciary Committee meeting on a proposal to repeal the state’s same-sex marriage bill, described the issue of gay marriage as follows: ...

As Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum watched the #MeToo movement emerge in a swirl of impassioned testimony several years ago, she was struck not only by the swell of attention being paid to stories of sexual ...

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 ...

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 ...