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Some Mildly Related Things

I gave before I read this at Shakesville, as I’ve always liked Doctors Without Borders, but it made me feel even better about my choice: DWB was operating three medical centers in Haiti, providing some of the only accessible care … Continue reading

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Graeber Utopianism

What American academics expect from France is an intellectual high, the ability to feel one is participating in wild, radical ideas – demonstrating the inherent violence within Western conceptions of truth or humanity, that sort of thing – but in … Continue reading

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