Sometimes people need to be saved from themselves. Since I’m a big fan of personal responsibility, I don’t often call on third parties like government, corporations or even friends to provide limits that individuals should find in themselves. But I’m...
Dispatches Syndkt will be launching in early 2013 and although it seems a long way away, it’s really not. Content creators send us pitches for your best work and be one of the first to tap into this new market. And newspaper publishers and editors, watch for our...
Mount Athos is the Christian Tibet, a place that time forgot. This finger of land in north eastern Greece is the other side of the wardrobe Lucy used to enter Narnia. Except here, no one named Lucy is allowed. For 1,000 years the Holy Mountain’s old growth forests and...
In 2007 I was caught in Bangladesh during Cyclone Sidr. After the storm passed I covered the wreckage and recovery. Here’s a web post from that time plus a radio documentary I produced. The photo features me shooting video of an aid worker in a very leaky boat....
A bureaucracy is a machine that only needs humans as functionaries. It repeats the same motions in the same way without any change, in service to the god of efficiency. It demands work and loyalty from the pawns it conscripts because the highest goal of a bureaucracy...
“Daddy I’m scared…” “Don’t worry son, I’ll protect you from all the bad people.” “Are there lots of bad people Dad?” “Oh yes there’s lots and lots of them and they’re everywhere but most of them...
