Why Is Haiti So Miserable?

And: Mediocre Lawyers For Equity; The Spy Who Stole My Jimmy Choos

Haitian vodou worshiper in a ‘voodoo trance’ — possessed by a vodou spirit — lying with a corpse he raided from a tomb (Source)

One of the perennial themes in my work is the way religion and culture intersect. Our media, naturally, don’t understand this, except in one way: how conservative Christianity poisons our politics (in their view). This is why it…