On the Rise and Fall of Human Rights
From Arendt, to Douglass, to Palestine—what does it mean to have a “right to rights”? By Mark Goodale
Tag: Hannah Arendt
A City-Sized Prison-House
With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat, …
