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September 11, 2005

Rebecca Solnit on Disaster

Making its way across the blogosphere is Rebecca Solnit's essay for Harpers on "The Uses of Disaster," which I'm guessing was written well before Katrina, and so is disturbingly prescient. She added a postscript specific to the recent tragedy.

It's very much worth reading. Solnit's an excellent, and highly passionate and opinionated, writer. She's something of a libertarian Socialist, but somehow makes it work for her.

Posted by peterme at September 11, 2005 09:17 PM

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Amazing, Harper's quoting Shepard Smith sympathetically.

Posted by: Dan Hartung at September 13, 2005 10:07 PM