Human rights and wrongs

From Social Research, a special issue on "Difficult Choices", including Edna Ullmann-Margalit on Difficult Choices: To Agonize or Not to Agonize?, Isaac Levi on Identity and Conflict; Jonathan Moore on Deciding Humanitarian Intervention and Mary Anderson on To Work, or Not to Work, in "Tainted" Circumstances: Difficult Choices for Humanitarians. Staying neutral: A new report furthers the debate on how far aid organisations are moving away from the "political humanitarianism" of recent years. A look at how the free rider theory provides a novel explanation of why the world regularly fails to halt genocide. An excerpt from Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan. A review of Helen Fein's Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide. A review of The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight (and more and more and more). A review of Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt. From Yes!, a look at 100 years of human rights in the US. Say Anything: Anthony Grafton on what the Renaissance teaches us about torture. Innocence is constantly perceived to be “lost” at various moments in American history: An excerpt from Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero by Marita Sturken.