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Liberalism, Absolutism, and Human Rights: Reply to Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried and Paul Piccone wrongly confuse liberal activism with liberal absolutism, and anti-genocidal interventionism with Western imperialism. Gottfried claims that human rights are just "pious noise signifying whatever journalists or victimologists want it to mean in a particular situation," manipulated by the self-appointed vicars of the church of "human rights," whose "new theocratic world government" means a "reduction of morality to trendiness." Trendy theocrats? Is there some contradiction here? In his various comments on my work, and his critique of Victor Zaslavsky's views on totalitarianism,¹ Piccone rejects universal human rights and the liberal critique of totalitarian states—a theme echoed...