“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite,” wrote George Orwell in a 1942 essay on the English reactionary poet Rudyard Kipling. Our existences all closely depend on the exploitation and robbery of dollar-a-day…

As usual, there is a radio playing loudly in the background as I type away at my computer. The station plays whatever sounds good, including Botswana house music. I’m not a house fan but when you go…