David Rieff

David Rieff has written extensively on war, humanitarianism, human rights, and immigration. He is the author of eight books and is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine.  

 

Articles by David Rieff

• A Jesuit priest makes a difference

  Posted on 05/24/10

  David Rieff reviews a book by Father Gregory Boyle, who works with gang members in Los Angeles. Father Boyle says that love is not for the faint of heart.

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• David Rieff: Forgetting Haiti. It's Bound to Happen. Then What?

  Posted on 03/09/10

  Thanks to YouTube and the fact that even many very cheap cell phones have cameras nowadays, we who live in the rich world could observe this havoc all but instantaneously. But what purpose did this witnessing (most emphatically not "Witness") serve for us or for the Haitian people?

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