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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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In Memory of Breonna Taylor
In response to the murder of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year old black woman murdered in her sleep by police in Louisville, Kentucky, Senior Fellow Melissa Serrano wrote this poem to honor her life and death at the hands of an unjust justice system.
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How to Fix Democracy with Paul Collier
"I don't do nostalgia [for the days of when capitalism seemed to be fairer]. I don't want to look back and cling to the past... However, there was a fairer system post-War [World II]."
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How to Fix Democracy with Richard D. Wolff
"You have markets in feudalism. You have markets in slavery. To celebrate the market doesn't tell you what organization of production and distribution of services a system has."
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What is a Shelter-In-Place Order Without Shelter?
In this article, Fellow Kendell Miller-Roberts calls for greater attention on the housing crisis in the United States, an issue predating the COVID-19 crisis and only being worsened by the pandemic.
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How to Fix Democracy with Amity Shlaes
"As you can see from the stock market response, even the $2 trillion stimulus [during the coronavirus pandemic] did not save us. I tend to think that the private sector is going to be the salvation and that the market already recognizes that."
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75 jaar Vrijheid: Naar een inclusieve en duurzame herdenking
Gisteren was de Nationale Herdenkingsdag en vandaag is het Bevrijdingsdag in Nederland. Dagen die onze aandacht onverdeelde aandacht hebben, maar waar we ook vraagtekens bij zetten. De afgelopen jaren is de kritiek op dit ambigue herdenkingsmoment toegenomen. Is de Nederlandse Nationale Herdenking inclusief en duurzaam? En hoe kunnen we de lessen uit het verleden gebruiken om ons naar een betere toekomst te leiden?
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My Community's Uphill Battle Against COVID-19
Growing up indigenous in the United States means living with the understanding that much of the United States is unaware of your existence. I attribute this to several things, the first being history.
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How to Fix Democracy with Sarah Miller
"In the 1970s, the legacy of the New Deal had petered out. A new generation of leadership had come into Washington that did not have at the center this antagonistic, skeptical approach toward concentrated corporate and economic power."
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.