Talking Rights

Jack Goldsmith resigned from his post at Justice because he tried, albeit in a very limited way, to halt some of the worst human rights excesses of the Bush administration. But his call in today’s Post to limit investigations is dead wrong — and self-serving. We can let the perpetrators of the horrific abuses of [...]

Mike Tigar resently joined Duke’s law faculty and is on the Duke Human Rights Center steering committee. This is his talk before the election:

One of the aspects of Bush’s “war on terror” that has not received enough attention is how appalling tactics — torture, warrantless arrests and wiretapping, detention without trial — have dug their way into the world in which we live. These abuses are not taking place entirely “over there” in places like Guantanamo. From the [...]

I’ve been slow in posting the iTunes videos of the Duke Human Rights Center events. This is a great one, featuring noted historian John Hope Franklin talking with CUNY scholar Lea Wernick Fridman about African-American politician, historian and journalist George Washington Williams.
Williams had a fascinating, complicated life. A Civil War veteran, he fought with Mexican [...]