Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Description: Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia traced the evolution of the human rights revolution and argued that human rights as an ideology took the place of socialism and other utopian ideologies that failed. In his new book, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (Harvard University Press, 2018), Moyn examines human rights from a different perspective, namely its inability to challenge the rise of inequality across the world. Moyn argues that this development wasn’t inevitable from a historical perspective and was the result of decisions made by politicians and social priorities articulated by philosophers beginning in the twentieth centu...