A stratified society does not only rank individuals. It ranks nations, and it treats the ranking as a theory of competence. When a country is perceived as a junior party in geopolitics — poorer, weaker, on the receiving end of aid, advice, and intervention — the people inside it are not addressed as colleagues. They…
The Numbers We’re Not Talking About Let’s start with a number: 5,794. That’s the confirmed case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 2026 Ebola outbreak as of August 26. Here’s another: 2,786 — the number of dead. Now let me give you a comparison that should make you sit up. In the first…