Diritti umani, islamismo e rock and roll

Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia. Human Rights in History (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press). "The modern concept of human rights, - secondo Moyn, professore di storia alla Columbia - differs radically from older claims of rights, like those that arose out of the American and French Revolutions. ... human rights in their current form - applicable to all and internationally protected - can be traced not to the Enlightenment, nor to the humanitarian impulses of the 19th century nor to the impact of the Holocaust after World War II. Instead, he sees them as dating from the 1970s, exemplified by President Jimmy Carter's effort to make human rights a pillar of United States foreign policy". nytbr.


Graham Fuller, A World Without Islam (Little, Brown). Graham Fuller sostiene che l'animosità tra parti del mondo musulmano e gli USA non è dovuta all'Islam o al fervore religioso, ma ha radici storiche. lat.

Steven Kasher, Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll (Abrams Image). Il mitico luogo di incontro dei personaggi del rock e dell'arte a NYC negli anni Sessanta. (Nella foto Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin, e Tim Buckley al Max's l'8 marzo del 1968.) nymag.