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David Rieff

David Rieff is the author, most recently, of "In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies."

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Sisal Creative illustration for Foreign Policy; Sean Money and Elizabeth Fay for Foreign Policy

The End of Human Rights?

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David Rieff

April 9, 2018, 8:00 AM

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17:
Visitors to the United States Holocaust Museum, which is about to celebrate its' 20th anniversary, pass beneath a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes One Free), on April, 17, 2013 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by ) — WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17: Visitors to the United States Holocaust Museum, which is about to celebrate its' 20th anniversary, pass beneath a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes One Free), on April, 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by )

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