Inventing Human Rights: A History
September 20, 2007Why do we have human rights? Where did they come from? UCLA Professor Lynn Hunt, author of “Inventing Human Rights: A History” (Norton, 2007), will join us this hour.
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The World Without Us
September 20, 2007What would happen if people just disappeared? Alan Weisman has a few thoughts on the subject. Weisman presents a haunting yet strangely appealing portrait of a planet earth devoid of human beings in his new, best-selling book “The World Without Us” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). We’ll explore that world and the ways we might get […]
