Take note of this brilliant article
by Michael
Knox Beran ( a lawyer and writer, is a
contributing editor of City
Journal and the author of Forge of Empires, Jefferson’s Demons, and The
Last Patrician, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998.) in the
winter issue of City Journal.
It captures so much of what we struggle against in our Central American context
from the point of view of the experience of African relief culture.
Here is his conclusion:
"If the prosperous nations really want to help Africa, they need to resist the seductions of paternalism. They need to promote, not policies that will ensure that the continent remains a collection of fiefdoms dependent on subsidies and celebrity pity, but wealth-generating entrepreneurial efforts. They need to export, not a dated philosophy of mandarinism, but ideas that really can lift peoples and nations out of the lower depths—the ideas of Bacon, Hayek, de Soto, and The Wealth of Nations"
Read the article here for his insightful justification to the above declaration.
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