The League of Nations had a shelf life which expired in 1946 when it proved to be incapable of meeting the needs of the international order. And so it should be with the United Nations. When autocratic theocracies chair UN Human Rights Councils and Democracies are neutered by its bureaucracy allowing nuclear-armed thugocracies to hold the world ransom, it is time to put the UN in the recycling bin where it belongs. A new international body with defined criteria for membership should replace it, where membership is reserved for countries with a recognizable form of Democracy, have a commitment to constitutionally enshrined protections for minorities, a core belief in the rule of law through an independent judiciary, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, gender equality and the primacy of the individual and their right to pursue self actualization without state interference amongst other root principles. A better, 21st century UN that embodies the best of humanity not its worst.