It’s common knowledge that birth rates tend to be higher in economically less developed places and lower in economically developed ones. For example, the birth rate in Italy is so low that the government offers money for fecundity. On the other hand, Niger, among the poorest countries in the world, is also the country with […]
Month: August 2009
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Morality and What We Wear
I’d fully intended to blog in detail about the Liskula Cohen affair but after getting into a long debate about it on Twitter today, decided it wasn’t really worth it (also, I’m not an expert in defamation law and am sure to screw something up). The short of it is I think any pending defamation […]
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Meknes, ya Meknes
As I get ready for work, I finger a row of books on the shelf, tickling the spines of favorite titles like John Updike’s Brazil and Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita until I reach a tiny volume. My fingers rest upon the broken and bent spine of Allan Hibbard’s Paul Bowles, Magic, and Morocco, […]