Human Rights Without Humanism
Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?
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Writing Africans Out Of South African History
Venerating Gandhi as the arbiter of anticolonial struggle obscures the history of Africans.
Human Rights: A Fragile Hegemony
Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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
Religious Freedom in the Commercial Sphere
Are people organized as corporations entitled to constitutional rights? by ILYA SOMIN Hobby Lobby Store in Ohio. Creative Commons image via Wikimedia Commons. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby addressed a seemingly narrow issue: whether the Obamacare regulation requiring corporate employers …
