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...many Harvard students today, as Faust correctly seemed to indicate, cannot be bothered thinking seriously about the good or “meaningful” life. To have succeeded in gaining admission in the first place required an intense drive and prodigious ambition. As such, concerned almost exclusively with the even loftier rewards and honors to which their degrees will entitle them, most do not want to waste intellectual energy on matters that do not have a clear, tangible benefit...
Despite President Faust’s plaints—delivered, on the eve of Commencement, perhaps too tardily—her institution deserves the bulk of the blame. Students, untutored and undirected, cannot be too harshly indicted for wanting to cash in their many talents for fortune, prestige, and power. The liberal arts should educate those passions, inspiring at the very least an awareness that the greatest goods in life are not simply creature comforts or those simple and low pleasures of the herd. And certainly, true happiness and “meaning” do not reside in satisfying...
...Virtually all food in rural Africa today is de facto organic, because small farmers there cannot afford to purchase any nitrogen fertilizer. Fertilizer use per hectare in Africa is only 1/10 as high as in Europe or North America, causing crop yields per hectare to be only 1/5 as high as their Northern counterparts. Total production level has been declining on a per capita basis for the past three decades...
...portion marketed does not travel far. This is because of high transport costs linked to a poor road system. Roughly 70 percent of all rural Africans live more than a 30-minute walk from the nearest all-weather road, so when seasonal rains are good, surplus production cannot be moved easily for sale in another district at a higher price. Even worse for these true Locavores, when the crops fail in a drought, food supplies from nearby surplus regions cannot be brought...
...rich markets. This indicates that financial interdependence, though economically beneficial, does little to mitigate global rivalries and often severely alters the power dynamics in relationships between states. Ultimately, America should respond by being wary at home and by increasing its own intelligence-gathering abroad. Given its clandestine nature, this cannot evoke bitterness the way overt military force does...