Weekend reading

With a long weekend ahead and very cold weather predicted, we think this might the time to settle in and read Nicholas D. Kristof's article on Darfur in The New York Review of Books.

During the Holocaust, the world looked the other way. Allied leaders turned down repeated pleas to bomb the Nazi extermination camps or the rail lines leading to them, and the slaughter attracted little attention. My newspaper, The New York Times, provided meticulous coverage of World War II, but of 24,000 front-page stories published in that period only six referred on page one directly to the Nazi assault on the Jewish population of Europe. Only afterward did many people mourn the death of Anne Frank, construct Holocaust museums, and vow: Never Again.

Entitled Genocide in Slow Motion, the full article is available here.