The Mask It Wears
Pankaj Mishra: The Wrong Human Rights, 21 June 2018
The People v. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk.
Harvard, 400 pp., £21.95, March 2018,978 0 674 97682 5 Show More
by Yascha Mounk.
Harvard, 400 pp., £21.95, March 2018,
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
by Samuel Moyn.
Harvard, 277 pp., £21.95, April 2018,978 0 674 73756 3 Show More
by Samuel Moyn.
Harvard, 277 pp., £21.95, April 2018,
“... morality, pointing to the global inequalities perpetuated by the champions of human rights. Arundhati Roy spoke in 2004 of an ‘alarming shift of paradigm’: ‘Even among the well-intentioned, the expansive, magnificent concept of justice is gradually being substituted with the reduced, far more fragile discourse of “human rights”’ – a ... ”