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Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa
vanityfair.comThe documentary Candamo,
Paul Rosolie • Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
The Good Pervert, by David Velasco
harpers.orgWilbert Tatum, the editor and publisher of the Amsterdam News, tried to explain to Kurtz how, in his view, Sharpton had been cast as “a caricature of black leadership”:
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
Sure, all missions are inherently patronizing to the host culture. That’s what a mission is—a bunch of strangers showing up somewhere uninvited to inform the locals they are wrong.
Sarah Vowell • Unfamiliar Fishes

If a homesteader was murdered, Indians were always the first suspected of the crime. If two hundred Indian women and children and elders were ambushed on a spring morning and massacred by soldiers of the United States Army, the newspapers called it “a battle.”