What Does Global Justice Look Like in the 21st Century?

In an interview with Jacobin, the political philosopher Philippe Van Parijs discusses the challenges of achieving global justice today, from winning an emancipatory basic income to accommodating mass migration to rich countries.

As humanity enters the second quarter of the twenty-first century, pressing injustices seem to be multiplying on both national and international scales. In the United States and many other developed nations, governments are imposing austerity as inequality continues to climb and the AI boom mints a new cohort of powerful billionaires. Globally, violent conflict, climate change, and severe poverty are generating mass migration flows that are confronting many rich countries with significant humanitarian and political challenges.

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