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Luke talks with Dr. Lynn Hunt about the development of human rights and how they became self-evident, the significance of rights claims, socialism/communism and human rights, and how to think about our current political structure.

Lynn is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She’s the author of several books, including Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984) and Inventing Human Rights: A History (2006).