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Today, the distinction between human rights and property rights is often discussed. To the contrary, property rights are the most fundamental of all human rights.
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In the credits of Disney’s new Mulan movie, the company offers a special thanks to four Chinese Communist Party propaganda departments and a public security bureau in the region of Xinjiang where more than a million Muslims, mostly of the Uighur minority, have been imprisoned in concentration camps. Disney recently revealed that some scenes in …
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Tyga is at the center of some real-life geopolitical intrigue — after being mostly famous for his role in reality TV on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” The US-based Human Rights Foundation is urging the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance at a government-sponsored concert in Belarus. Why? The “Hip Hop Fireworks” show is due …
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The United Nations Human Rights Council has decided to hold a urgent debate on racism and police brutality in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. The proposal, made by a group of African countries led by Burkina Faso, was approved on Monday by the U.N.’s top human rights body. The debate on …
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This is the central premise of Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel in which a Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in 1922. My university students selected Towles’s novel as the final text in our course on Favorite Books, unaware that we would be replicating the protagonist’s experience at the end of …
Today, the distinction between human rights and property rights is often discussed. To the contrary, property rights are the most fundamental of all human rights.
