Samuel Moyn

Not Humane, Just Invisible: A Counternarrative to Samuel Moyn’s “Humane”

by Priya Satia

A historian of empire takes issue with a recent book examining the contradiction between changes that make war supposedly less brutal while also making it les 

Fishing, Not Catching, in the History of the Law

by John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt writes about a critical exchange over Samuel Moyn's book on humanitarian war, and questions Moyn's conception of the relationship between a scholar's politics and their methodology. 

The Disillusionment of Samuel Moyn

The Yale historian has become a prominent critic of liberalism. But what’s he for?