Winter 2025

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn Harvard University Press, 2010 344 pp., $27.95 HUMAN RIGHTS—the rights one holds simply because one is a human being—are a modern idea. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by …

If you aspire to write, calling yourself a writer doesn’t make it so. You must first have written a book, compiled a few decent magazine clips, or have a mildly snarky and occasionally read blog to make the leap into …