Lynn Hunt on the Development of Human Rights

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Luke talks with Dr. Lynn Hunt about the development of human rights and how they became self-evident, the significance of rights claims, socialism and communism, and how to think about our current political structure.

Dr. Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She’s the author of several books, including Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984) and Inventing Human Rights: A History (2006).