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The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)

Considering the triumph, and questionable uses, of the theory since the Vietnam War

June 10, 2024 • by Michael Walzer

All of us in the antiwar camp suddenly began talking the language of just war—though we did not know that that was what we were doing....

Social Research at 90

Announcing the Spring 2024 issue

April 26, 2024 • by Social Research

The Spring 2024 issue of Social Research marks the 90th anniversary of Social Research. The Spring 2024 anniversary issue reprints articles that have appeared in Social Research over the last 20 years. ...

Pandemic as a Natural Evolutionary Phenomenon

Human beings forget that they will always share the planet with microbes

May 21, 2020 • by Joshua Lederberg

Pasteur and Darwin Charles Darwin’s role in nineteenth-century thought, how that shapes our own thinking about man’s place in Nature, is too well-known and oft-discussed to bear extensive elaboration on my part. His contemporary, Louis Pasteur, is a culture hero, world-renowned for the human benefits of his germ theory of disease: the ...