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Plus ça Change…

And: Nolan’s Selina Kyle: “There’s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, ‘cause when it hits, you’re...

Raison d’Etre

Behind Every Mountain, more mountains. Haitians dream and create, turning struggles into strength, our histories into songs.

The Cruel Theater of Ruin: Haiti’s 2010 Earthquake Revisited

The proverbs of Haiti, like whispered hymns of the ancestors, find their way into moments when truth must be spoken plainly, when the weight...

The Common Wind

Reflections of the late Professor Scott upon the vast and far-reaching reverberations of the Haitian Revolution, whose shockwaves extended beyond the narrow bounds of...

Breaking Haitian: A Vodou-Konbit Vision for Haiti’s Future

“Haiti has a Western veneer, with an educational system, courts and a government, but this has very little to do with the way things...

Haiti’s Path Forward: Reflections on Public Works and Nation Building

During my morning run, I saw this utility marker—a symbol of the intricate machinery of public works. If every Haitian cultivated an equal fascination...

Reflections on the Blank Page

Can the Haitian spirit subsist on mere words alone? Cast your minds back to the austere dominion of WordPerfect 5.1—a technological age when the...

Diaspora Nonprofits and the Lindy Test: How to Separate the Real...

The Lindy Test for Haitian Nonprofits: How to Cut Through the Fog and Find the Truth There is a certain immortality to the things that...