How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and how we can build a better system of justice: "Incisive." —Publishers Weekly
Finalist, American Association of Publishers Prose Award

You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun.

Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they're also ...