What did Christian human rights mean for Jews? This is not a question that Samuel Moyn considers in any great…
Christian human rights and the Jews
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
An unwanted legacy: Christianity and the future of human rights
The conceptual history of human rights has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the last decade. Many of…
Border-crossers, the human person, and Catholic communitarianism
It is a delight to be asked to contribute to this forum on Samuel Moyn’s work on Christianity and human…
The long shadow of Christian politics
It has become a truism to say that Samuel Moyn’s work landed like “a grenade” amid common understandings of postwar…
Is secularism still Christian?
In January 2013, hundreds of thousands of French Catholics marched down the streets of Paris to protest the “Marriage For…
Catholics, anti-Semitism, and the human rights swerve
In signature style, Sam Moyn is poised to launch another spectacular provocation with his forthcoming Christian Human Rights. Building on…
Roots and routes of rights
Over the past four decades, a cottage industry of important new scholarship has emerged dedicated to the history of rights…
Samuel Moyn and the history of natural right
Within historical approaches to questions of natural right, one can approximately distinguish three main tendencies. The first is a whiggish…
Where is America in human rights history?
What is the place of the United States in the history of Christian human rights? This question is worth entertaining…
Truth and triviality: Christianity, natural law, and human rights
For every phenomenon there is an indefinite, if not infinite, number of both continuities and discontinuities with what came before.…