19 Aug On hipster racism more generally (from 1957 to today)
I stumbled across the Norman Mailler piece in Dissent from 1957, the White Negro. It's a great read and makes a wonderful addition to put this gem into perspective: ...
17 Aug World Humanitarian Day 2012
The World Health Organization has announced that Sunday 19 August is World Humanitarian Day. This day, they say, "offers the chance: for the public to learn more about the humanitarian community, what aid workers do and the challenges they face; for nongovernmental and international bodies and UN...
13 Aug The Mystery of the Service d’Hygiene
It's been two weeks, now, and i've not found a single set of records pertaining to the Service d'Hygiene. I've followed every lead imaginable - i've read countless reports of rapes, murders, court martials, food shortages, tobacco taxes, squabbles about who does and doesn't have...
11 Aug On American Politics
I'm listening to the live coverage of the announcement by Gov. Mitt Romney of his running mate, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. It's accidental, really - i've taken up listening to NPR every morning since moving to DC to fill the empty space of silence that...
08 Aug Experiments, or how the US learned to Develop
I've come to this project with a sense that the Occupation in haiti was really an experiment, a kind of testing ground for what would be the future of Big D Development, as we know it. Today, while reading through JAG files, i found this...