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As Isaac nears hurricane force, we remember Katrina and Camille:
“Without an honest reckoning of the storm’s moral implications, Mark Smith concludes, ‘we seem doomed to perpetuate the recovery divide the next time a powerful Atlantic storm decides to cut its teeth on southern soil.’”
(NOAA photo of damage from 1969’s Hurricane Camille, which killed 143 people)
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As Isaac nears hurricane force, we remember Katrina and Camille:

“Without an honest reckoning of the storm’s moral implications, Mark Smith concludes, ‘we seem doomed to perpetuate the recovery divide the next time a powerful Atlantic storm decides to cut its teeth on southern soil.’”

(NOAA photo of damage from 1969’s Hurricane Camille, which killed 143 people)

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The American Scholar is the venerable and lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.

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