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The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Calvin Trillin — 1964

From 1964: An encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.

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What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil’s Radical Reminder

She believed we have obligations to attend to our fellow humans. How could that spirit change our politics?

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Robert Zaretsky
2018
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Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation

In this 1943 essay, written during the last year of her life, which she spent working with Gen. de Gaulle in the struggle for French liberation, Weil makes the case for the existence of a transcendent and universal moral law, and describes the social responsibilities that accompany it.

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Richard Rees (Translator)
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