New Orleans Reading the papers on the financial dilemma of the United States’ Puerto Rican colony you get the notion that this is just the Greek mess that we already don’t understand clearly, but in Spanglish and closer to home. Talking to Willie Cosme, veteran of KABF, Local 100, and still host of the ever …
Tag: poverty
Philosopher Peter Singer’s Advice for the Rich
New Orleans Recently, I read Princeton University’s professor and philosopher Peter Singer’s books advising on the amount of money we should give and where we should give it in hopes of living a moral life. The two books, The Most Good You Can Do and Life You Can Save, are really almost the same book, …
Hillary Rodham on Saul Alinsky, Community Organizing, and Change
Montreal I knew that Hillary Clinton, when still Hillary Rodham, had written her senior thesis at Wellesley College on Saul Alinsky and his work, and I had even talked to her about it briefly over lunch once in Little Rock in the early 1970’s, but I had never actually read it until the link was …