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Freddy speaks to Christopher Caldwell, journalist and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, about the human rights movement. Can America’s influence be considered imperial? Is how we think of human rights outdated? And, what does the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2011 intervention in Libya tell us about the state of human rights today?
Christopher Caldwell on human rights versus democracy
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US politics and analysis, delivering in-depth discussions with the best American pundits. Presented by Freddy Gray.
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