On American Morals
by G.K. Chesterton From Generally Speaking, Dodd & Mead, 1929 America is sometimes offered to us, even by Americans (who ought to know...
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Tolkien on Impossible Love
JRR Tolkien is well-known and beloved for his renowned Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasies. Tolkien is lesser known, however, for his...
Do Animals Have Rights?
Like a great many problematic and disputed concepts in society today, the idea of animal rights can be traced to the Enlightenment period...
Things are not always as they seem
The following article by Dr. Pnina Galpaz Feller is reprinted with the kind permission of The Schechter Institutes which, since 1984, has...
The foundation of all reason
What’s the most important word in the English language? Indeed, what is the most important word in any language? The most important word...
Do "human rights" exist?
Nearly everyone today believes in human rights...or at least, they say they believe in human rights. But when pushed to give a coherent...
Chung-Shu Lo: A Confucian Approach to Human Rights
The following excerpt is from an essay, contributed to the 1948 UNESCO symposium on human rights, by Chinese scholar, Chung-Shu Lo....
Aldous Huxley on the Current Situation Affecting Human Rights
The following is an excerpt from Aldous Huxley’s contribution to the 1947-48 UNESCO symposium on human rights. Huxley offers a bleak...
An Empirical Approach to Rights
The following is Yale professor, F. S. C. Northrop's 1947 contribution to the UNESCO symposium on the meaning of and value of human...
