The University of Louisville has awarded the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order to Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a human-rights organization, and the author of a plan for ending the enslavement of some 27 million people. Slavery is illegal in every country but is still widely practiced, Mr. Bales says, because it and human trafficking are tied into the global economy. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is one of several annual prizes created in 1984 by a Louisville alumnus that are being presented this week. According to today’s New York Times, the size of each prize has been cut in half because of a sharp drop in the value of the endowment supporting the awards.
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