Human Rights Books & Reviews

Mohandas and the Unicorn

Patrick French | Jun 21, 2011
Gandhi cuts a saintly figure in the modern imagination. Joseph Lelyveld’s controversial biographical account presents a more dispassionate perspective of the Father of the Indian Nation. An exaggerated creation myth is revealed.

What Rawls Hath Wrought

John Gray | Dec 16, 2010
The human-rights movement is nothing more than an unattainable utopian dream used to justify moral ends through ruinous wars of intervention.

Bad Laws Make Bad Judges

Fred C. Ikle | Mar 01, 2004
Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.

Our Man in Nairobi

Michael Chege | Mar 01, 1998
Smith Hempstone's  narrative of his diplomatic "arm wrestling" with a recalcitrant Moi regime between 1989 and 1993 is lucid, witty and comprehensive.

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