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,
“... together, with its particular infrastructure, bureaucracy and fundraising programmes, into what David Kennedy in The Rights of Spring (2009), his acidulous memoir of human rights activism in Uruguay in 1984, called the ‘smooth and knowing routines of professional advocacy’. Kennedy, recalling time spent in the offices of Human Rights Watch in the Empire ... ”