Join the Car Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School for a launch event to celebrarte the publication of Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone by by John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse.

An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation? Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart.

Panelists include:

• Alan Jenkins, professor of practice, Harvard Law School
• Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University
• John Shattuck, senior fellow and Rreimagining rights and responsibilities project lead, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (2018-2021)
• Mathias Risse (Introductory Remarks), Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, faculty director; Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy
• Sushma Raman (Moderator), Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, executive Director