Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Endowed By The Creator: Ayaan Hirsi Ali And Peter Berkowitz On Our Unalienable Rights

 

Hoover Fellows Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Peter Berkowitz discuss the final report recently issued by the US State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights, of which Berkowitz was the commission secretary. Together they discuss the findings of the report, why Secretary of State Pompeo felt the need for the commission and the report, and the controversy that surrounded both. They compare and contrast the report to the US Constitution, which also prominently mentions unalienable rights, as well as the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. Finally, they discuss how US foreign policy should employ our belief in human rights to improve the human condition.

Recorded on September 3, 2020

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  1. Hartmann von Aue Member

    Somehow I had missed that Ms. Hirsi Ali was now with the Hoover Institution. Many thanks for this discussion. 

    Berkowitz is right about the deliberate teaching of contempt for the U.S. and its ideals, about the cultivation of fury, “the systematic vilification of the United States and inculcation of scorn,” being the key elements of university level brainwashing on campuses across the country. It is far past time we on the right tore the reigns out of the hands of the left on college and university campuses. 

    Ik vond het erg leuk, een Nederlands accent in Ricochet te hoeren. Zou vaker gebeuren. 

    “Autocratic secular theocracies”- that has to be the best succinct characterisation of Communist governmens like those of China and North Korea I’ve heard. 

     

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  2. Duane Oyen Member
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    Audio (mp3) can be downloaded here: https://uncommonknowledgehoover.podbean.com/

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    • October 29, 2020, at 8:20 AM PDT
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