Do international law and human rights continue to have a point in a world this broken?

This week’s episode addresses this crucial question to coincide with the annual gathering of UN General Assembly, in New York.

For a clear and concise intro to human rights see Andrew Clapham’s Human Rights: a Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015).

For my analysis of the gentrification of human rights see my 2019 article published by Human Rights Quarterly. Available here.

Hazony’s book is shaping the MAGA movement as it becomes increasingly ideological. Is it any good? Should we take it seriously? Is the pen truly and still mightier than the sword?

Does our tribal politics make us all stupid?

In this week’s episode I engage with this important work.

For a more academic literature on social class and injustice see my 'Taking Social Class Seriously', published by Human Rights Quarterly. Available here.

You might also want to check out a policy paper I wrote and was published by the Fabian Society. Available here.

For a highly informative site which records extreme poverty as a human rights violation check out this UN page.

One of the best academic critiques of identity politics' neglect of social class is Walter Benn Michaels' The Trouble With Diversity: How we Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality. (2016).

Still a relevant and insightful study of how a neglect of class increases electoral support for the Right in the US see Arlie Russell Hochshild Strangers in their own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016)

This is the first part of a two-parter in which I engage with a key group in the culture wars and authoritarian populism. Are white, straight male as a group generally and necessarily conservative and lost to any genuine form of radical political project?