In the Irish Times' philosophy column ‘Unthinkable’, Zellentin argues that human rights are meaningless unless someone is charged with delivering them. Not only states have this duty: it has to be society as a whole.
Read the full interview (Irishtimes.com)
Zellentin also discusses inequality, climate justice, and whether there should be a right to higher education:
I was 10, back in Bavaria, when the decision was made on whether I should go to grammar school leading to university or the other track which would lead to apprenticeships. At that point, my parents happened to be divorced, I happened to have a number of siblings, and my teacher told my mother: ‘Her grades are at the border but you will never be able to give her the support she needs to go to university’. So I was sent to secretarial school which was a complete disaster in the sense that I made a horrible secretary but it turns out I made a fairly good academic.
