From the article: The travel writer Paul Theroux has a new book out about his travels in the American South, and to promote it he wrote a column in the New York Times on poverty in the region and his proposed response. It suggests his powers of observation have waned since his 1970s critical heyday— and that he has some seriously misguided ideas about how to fight poverty. Here's Theroux:
China has been enriched by American-supplied jobs, making most of the destined-for-the-dump merchandise you find on store shelves all over America... it has coincided with a large number of Americans’ being put out of work and plunged into poverty....
Let’s start with what is right and heartbreaking about the column.
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