{"id":6152,"date":"2012-10-12T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2023-03-26T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:45:43","slug":"human-rights-a-reckoning-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2012\/10\/human-rights-a-reckoning-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights: A Reckoning &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Last Utopia\u201d is a revisionist history of human rights. Samuel Moyn\u00a0rejects the conventional wisdom that human rights surfaced as a reaction to\u00a0the horrors of World War II, instead insisting that the movement did not\u00a0emerge until the 1970s. 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