This has been a year of uprisings. The series of popular revolts, struggles and crackdowns by governments, which continue to this day... But whether or not every person on earth has certain rights just by virtue of being a person alive on the planet — a concept I will refer to here as natural human rights — is a question of some controversy. In these times, when new questions of rights, complaints and subsequent conflicts seem to arise anew each week, it’s worth knowing where we stand on the matter. Philosophers and legal scholars have intensely debated this issue over...