From David Brooks, on why Haiti is so poor: We’re all supposed to politely respect each other’s cultures. But some cultures are more progress-resistant than others, and a horrible tragedy was just exacerbated by one of them. Forget Haiti’s long history of colonial abuse, economic exploitation, and violent U.S. intervention (see here and here) when [...]
Archive for January 15th, 2010
Stupid Quote of the Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Culture, Development, Haiti on January 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Up in the Air as Social Commentary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art, Economic Crisis on January 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Bit of a drive-by post here- David Ruccio has a good post from earlier in the week about the movie Up in the Air and how it serves as a commentary on modern capitalism. I saw Up in the Air and really enjoyed it, and was also struck about how timely it was, particularly when [...]
Off Topic: Homophobia Still a Huge Issue at Notre Dame
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Notre Dame on January 15, 2010 | 23 Comments »
(Updates follow at the bottom) One of the giant elephants in the room at Notre Dame is that for a campus that espouses social justice and equality, it has not made much progress on creating a sexual orientation-neutral culture on campus. In many ways, it has directly stifled it, by rejecting non-discrimination language intended to [...]
