ABSTRACT
The human rights horizon of private wrongs is at the edge of our vision. But principled politics operates across the spectrum, in ways that are both similar to and different from the twentieth-century model of the politics of human rights. The struggle against private wrongs draws on familiar elements of symbolic politics, transnational networks, and universal norms. Yet campaigns to limit private authority must also construct new rights and discover new wrongs, seeking state regulation and global civic control of areas previously labeled as apolitical. In this deepest form of political challenge, states-which may be thin, conflicted, or even repressive-ironically stand as the last best hope of civil society.
