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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Tough Love Needed for Haiti by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online

Tough Love Needed for Haiti by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online

It’s hardly news that poverty makes people vulnerable to the full arsenal of Mother Nature’s fury. The closer you are to living in a state of nature, the crueler nature will be — which is one reason why people who romanticize tribal or pre-capitalist life (that would be you, James Cameron) tend to do so from a safe, air-conditioned distance and with easy access to flushing toilets, antibiotics, dentistry, and Chinese takeout.

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