Author and scholar Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will give a public talk at Washington and Lee on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel.The title of Nussbaum's lecture, which is free and open to the public, is "Anger and Revolutionary Justice.""When there is great injustice, it is very tempting to think that righteous anger is the best response, and even a necessary response," writes Nussbaum. "On the other hand, it is noteworthy that the three most successful revolutionary freedom movements in the past century have been conducted in a spirit of non-anger (distinct from, though sometimes joined to, non-violence): Gandhi's independence movement, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s role in the U. S. civil rights movement, and Nelson Mandela's freedom movement in South Africa. Studying the thought and practice of these three leaders, I argue that non-anger is both normatively and practically superior to anger."Nussbaum is an associate in the classics department, the Divinity School, and the political science department at the University of Chicago, as well as a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and a board member of the Human Rights Program.