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"Human Rights" as "Historical Universals"?

Once a vocation, being an intellectual today has become a profession. Like day traders or divorce lawyers, "public intellectuals" pack their briefcases in the morning and off they go to make a living in "the public sphere." Unlike day-traders and divorce lawyers, however, who at least have no illusions as to who they are and what they do, public intellectuals still pretend to follow a higher calling. They like to see themselves as the theoretical vanguard of an otherwise inarticulate and unsophisticated mass in need of guidance. Of course, this is nothing new. As in the dark ages of "pre-modernity,"...