How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Greene Jamal
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Greene Jamal "Essential and fresh and vital . . . No peace, no justice."--from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York…
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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Greene Jamal
"Essential and fresh and vital . . . No peace, no justice."--from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesAn eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.You have the right to remain silent--and the right to free speech. It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right.
The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to life, and the right to own a gun.Rights are a sacred part of American identity.
Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let