This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,

a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say

or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll

interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a

journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an ordinary

person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested

in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a

troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand

the scope of what is possible to say in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think.

What are human rights? Some people have said that freedom of speech is a human right.

Others have said that private property is a human right. And still others have said that education,

health care, and housing are human rights. But then there have also been people in government

who have argued quite successfully

that we should invade other countries

to ensure the people around the world

enjoy their own human rights.

This week's guest is the historian

of this very curious and often lethal idea known as human rights.

This is my interview with Samuel Moyne.

So I am here, well, I'm in Oakland, but Samuel Moyne here. Sam Moyne is in New Haven because he's a professor at Yale, both in the law school and in the history department.

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