Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. A leading scholar of wide range, she is the author of over two dozen books, including The Fragility of Goodness, Creating Capabilities, Upheavals of Thought, Anger and Forgiveness, Justice for Animals, and most recently The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem (2024). She is the recipient of the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2018 Berggruen Prize, and the 2021 Holberg Prize.