One trick for finding great new articles is to follow a bunch of journalists and editors on Twitter and to use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com to alert you to any popular reads. (It’s v similar to Nuzzel.) … Also, the pocket app is a great tool for algorithmically suggesting articles.
Until last week I was an editor for them. One trick I used for finding articles was by following journalists and editors on Twitter and using https://tweetdeck.twitter.com to alert me to any new articles that are getting attn online.
I recommend reading my new book on Thomas Gilbert Jr. for the full story!
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Kushner describes it as a "city", but with no power, water grid, sewage system or stormwater management,[1] it's more of a squatter camp with roads than a city.
They want to build infrastructure, but since nobody owns the land they're squatting on, there's no way to raise money via land taxes. The technocrat answer to that would be individual septic tanks and solar panels, but because there's no land ownership and no law enforcement, you'd have to be nuts to invest any serious money in building a house, because a gang would just take it from you. Classic development trap.
Jonathan Katz talked about Corail/Cannan in The Big Truck That Went By, and he wasn't a fan. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6GM/ Published in 2013, but it doesn't sound like much has changed.
1: Port-au-Prince gets about twice as much rain as Seattle per year, and is routinely hit by hurricanes. If you don't manage the stormwater, it washes your house downhill. Sewage systems have also become important, since UN peacekeepers brought cholera with them after the earthquake.
This is a thoroughly worthwhile read. To anyone starting it, don't abandon it just because you disagree with Huntington's claims, or because some of his predictions haven't panned out. It's a fascinating starting point for looking at cultural conflict, and it's informative even if you disagree or if it's wrong in some specifics.
On a related note, I'd like to plug one of my all-time favorite books. Robert Kaplan's The Coming Anarchy is a great read that spends a while discussing The Clash of Civilizations. It goes through a defense of the fundamental ideas, and argues that Huntington's big mistakes were in misidentifying specific cultural collisions.
You can read the first essay here for a taste. Both are great works.