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How Rights Went Wrong

Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
  • Jamal Greene
2022
Mariner Books

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  • Black and white people sitting at a lunch counter.
    Book Review

    When Rights Went Right

    Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?
    by David Cole via New York Review of Books on March 31, 2022
  • Illustration of a gavel by Vahram Muradyan
    Book Review

    Why Do Americans Have So Few Rights?

    How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice.
    by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on March 9, 2021

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Emissions from Union Carbide’s Ferro-Alloy Plant, Charleston, West Virginia, May 1973

The Lost Promise of Environmental Rights

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2023
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