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Há 4 dias · 2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume/Penguin Group, ISBN 0452284988; 2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, ISBN 1560255803; 2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0060598964
Há 5 dias · After realizing that the philanthropic project aimed at bridging the gap between the wealthy and the poor through love and charity was unfeasible, Tolstoy’s normalizing approach to the slum reality collapses, leaving him disappointed and angry: “And strange to say, whereas it seemed that to do good—to give money to those in need was a very good thing and should promote one’s love of ...
Há 1 dia · The Poverty of Our Freedom (2023) already highlights the twofold objective of this collection of essays. It is guided by the desire to deepen and improve the conceptual contours of that richer and fairer vision of freedom assumed earlier and to use that normative compass in order to consequently highlight the fact that narrow uses of its meaning can often be instrumental in maintaining the ...
Há 4 dias · A Vietnamese Refugee Tells Her Story. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, thousands of so-called "boat people" fled Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, often in small overcrowded ships that were barely seaworthy. The story of Linda Thong, while horrific, is not unusual. Refugees often encountered pirates while sailing the dangerous South China Sea.
Há 5 dias · Williams, who saw the problems of rural poverty and dismissed the notion of a rural idyll, was equally damning of the capitalist systems that he noted driving urban life. For Williams, both the industrial revolution and imperialism not only increased the urban populations of England but also altered the way that those who remained in the countryside would live ( Citation 2016 , p. 1).
Há 5 dias · Thomas Malthus (born February 13/14, 1766, Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, England—died December 29, 1834, St. Catherine, near Bath, Somerset) was an English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction.
Há 2 dias · Houses of hospitality are such a defining feature of the Catholic Worker Movement that it is easy to forget that Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the movement’s cofounders, envisioned something more: that every Catholic parish would have its own house of hospitality, and that every Christian home would have a “Christ room,” a room set aside to house those in need of shelter.
