Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Government professor Anthony Arend emphasizes a point during last Monday’s Human Rights: A Culture In Crisis class lecture. The class is team-taught by Arend, English professor ...

Introduction : a well-tempered human rights -- Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights -- Encountering relativism : the philosophy, politics, and power of a dilemma ...

The modern concept of human rights is historically linked to Western schools of thought, particularly the Enlightenment, and broadly associated with reason, individual freedom, and inherent human ...