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pulling back the curtain: notes on the history of neoliberalism…
Posted on December 9, 2015February 16, 2018

pulling back the curtain: notes on the history of neoliberalism…

  1. When I was still in high school, my father lost his job. He was a third-generation garment worker —  a cutter in a coat factory in Jersey City — and the company he worked for closed its U.S. facility and shipped all the work down to Mexico. In the wake of that turn, … Continue reading pulling back the curtain: notes on the history of neoliberalism…

Katherine Boo is my hero…
Posted on January 6, 2015January 18, 2015

Katherine Boo is my hero…

I’ve been reading a lot about global poverty for a current assignment. Katherine Boo is one of my favorites, and this particular sentence really punched me in the gut. From her 2009 New Yorker piece, Opening Night: The fences insured against a time when a scavenger in Gautam Nagar might learn that a shot of … Continue reading Katherine Boo is my hero…

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