title: Basic Rights
text: # Basic Rights
  
  Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Henry Shue in which he examines the issue of human rights and its relation to U.S. foreign policy.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Thomas Pogge, Michael Payne, and Andrew Cohen criticized Shue's ideas on basic rights. Jordan Kiper provided a defense of Shue's arguments for basic rights.
  
  