How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart By: Jamal Greene [Audiobook]

Author: Jamal Greene
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

You have the right to remain silent and the right to free speech. The right to worship and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination and to hate. The right to marry and to divorce; to have children and to terminate a pregnancy. The right to life and the right to own a gun.

Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they were an afterthought for the Framers, and early American courts rarely enforced them. Only as a result of the racial strife that exploded during the Civil War – and a series of resulting missteps by the Supreme Court – did rights gain such outsized power. The result is a system of legal absolutism that distorts our law and debases our politics. Over and again, courts have treated rights conflicts as zero-sum games in which awarding rights to one side means denying rights to others. As eminent legal scholar Jamal Greene shows in How Rights Went Wrong, we need to recouple rights with justice – before they tear society apart.

232K	00 - Intro.mp3
3.0M	01 - Foreword.mp3
28M	02 - Introduction.mp3
2.4M	03 - Part I, How Rights Became Trumps.mp3
30M	04 - 1. Getting the Bill of Rights Right.mp3
31M	05 - 2. Rights Meet Race.mp3
33M	06 - 3. Rightsism.mp3
1.5M	07 - Part II, No Justice, No Peace.mp3
27M	08 - 4. 'Too Much Justice'.mp3
31M	09 - 5. When Rights Collide.mp3
28M	10 - 6. When Rights Divide.mp3
2.7M	11 - Part II, Rehabilitating Rights.mp3
29M	12 - 7. Disability.mp3
30M	13 - 8. Affirmative Action.mp3
30M	14 - 9. Campus Speech.mp3
4.5M	15 - Conclusion.mp3
452K	16 - Outro.mp3
80K	How Rights Went Wrong.jpg
308M	total