A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DON QUIXOTE

Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (New York: Doubleday, 2013) (For a few moment, we sat in silence. Then he said: 'I believe in the contingency of life.' There are no certainties. Nothing can be predicted. When I say I have conviction, it's the conviction that this is the best we can do. I'm not betting the planet on anything. This isn't one grand roll of the dice. The world is complicated, hard, and messy.'" Id. at 231. From the bookjacket: "The Idealist is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.").