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One that you might like is the right to have rights by Stephanie De Goyer,

Alister Hunt, Lita Maxwell, and Samuel Moyen, with an afterward from Astra Taylor.

60 years ago the political with an exiled afterward from Astra Taylor.

60 years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship,

observed that before people can enjoy any of the inalienable rights of man,

before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on, there must

first be such a thing as the right to have rights.

The concept received little attention at the time,

but in our age of mass deportations,

Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, Muslims,

and extra-state war,

the phrase has become the center of a crucial and lively debate.

Here, five leading thinkers from very disciplines, including history, law, politics, and literary studies,

discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today. The right to have rights by Stephanie De Goyer, Alister Hunt,

Lita Maxwell and Samuel Moyne, with an afterward from Astra Taylor.

Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

We don't yet know the full extent of what Robert Mueller's investigation will turn up on President Trump and his many hangers-on in possession of various degrees of finality and ineptitude. What we do know is that the politics of the Russia probe are an utter disaster, leading Republicans to hypocritically

denounce purported national security state abuses on the part of a national security

state whose rampant abuses they've always cheered on with glee. Democrats, when they're not busy stupefied in awe of Russian troll armies, now toast the nasty

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