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The Haiti Earthquake: Aid & voodoo, but no answers
The Haiti earthquake “is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story,” writes David Brooks in “The Underlying Tragedy,” in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s why I agree with him, and still think he’s so wrong. 1. Aid: “We don’t know how,” Brooks says “to use aid to reduce poverty.” I agree. Despite [...]
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The Decent Technology
In today’s New York Times, David Brooks laments the decline in decency in this age of technology. He writes that the wired world encourages “an attitude of contingency,” and “an atmosphere of general disenchantment,” when it comes to dating. In the mating race, he says, have become comparison shoppers. My question is: what’s wrong with [...]
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