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The Cold War roots of liberalisms present crisis [A] daring new book.Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post A fascinating and combative intellectual history.Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly a
No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights. Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness. George Soros The age of human rights h
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In Humane , Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that todays idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In t
In Christian Human Rights , Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just pri
The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars,
A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive tr