In Jamal Greene's 'How Rights Went Wrong,' reimagining America's legal approach to rights

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In the U.S., individual rights are sacrosanct. Legal scholar Jamal Greene calls that "rightsism," and says it's pushing the country in the wrong direction. In a rebroadcast, we hear why he says it’s time to reduce the focus on individual rights. Jamal Greene and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:52.7	I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:54.4	Jamal Green is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and he joins us on the program
0:59.5	today, Professor Green Welcome.
1:02.0	Thank you.
1:03.0	Good to be here.
1:04.0	Well, I would like to start by asking you a series of questions that popped up in my
1:08.8	mind as we read your new book, How Rights Went Wrong.
1:12.8	So first of all, when Karen Finley claimed the right to national endowment for the arts
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