Abstract

In July 2020, the Commission on Unalienable Rights submitted its report1 at a historical moment that for two different reasons has made a serious consideration of rights, their foundation and their promotion, all the more urgent. Internationally, the response to the spread of the COVID pandemic has demonstrated the ease with which all countries, but most worrisomely liberal democracies that rightly pride themselves on their commitment to rights, quickly suspend them in a state of emergency. That a dictatorial China could lock down cities is not unexpected (although the admiration that such repression elicited in parts of the West is…

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