Barbarism Lite

Looking back to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago, we can now see that, at least in the North Atlantic world, the four decades that followed World War II were the Golden Age for ordinary people, or, in the phrase of the period, for “the common man.” Of course, we all know that poverty and deprivation didn’t simply disappear, but for the vast majority this was an unprecedented moment in history.

Barbarism Lite
by Ed Broadbent