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Their Spirits Were Trapped In Those Masks Society

Avi Steinberg | Topic | 6th December 2017
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Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology contains the “life masks” — faces molded from clay — of 72 individuals from the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Caddo Nations, prisoners of war who were captured and detained in the 1870s, the Guantanamo Bay inmates of their time, “consigned to an indefinite confinement without any formal charges or trial, as de facto prisoners of war”. To whom, now, do their faces belong? Hardly to Harvard (3,600 words)

My Quadriplegic Husband And Me Life

Laura Dorwart | Catapult | 6th December 2017
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When you love and live with a disabled person, what you want is understanding, indifference. and, from time to time, practical assistance — but what you tend to get is fear and pity. “When I lie awake at night, I don’t fantasize about miracle cures and redemption songs. I dream of ramps. Ramps leading up to showers and houses and waterfalls, to haunted hayrides and carriages and job interviews and Capitol Hill. Restaurant hostesses and flight attendants are not afraid. Doctors listen” (1,520 words)

Reflections On Hayek Money Pick of the day

Samuel Bowles et al | Vox EU | 8th December 2017
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Friedrich Hayek saw the market economy as an information-processing system, deriving equilibria from the actions of large numbers of individuals by treating prices as signals. A brilliant formulation. But was Hayek correct to deduce from this that markets and governments were fundamentally opposed, and that markets should take over much of the work of governments? “One can appreciate his insights into the functioning of market economies without idealising the system itself” (2,500 words)

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