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Natural Disasters

There's a Riot Goin' On

Jesse Walker | 9.19.2005 11:26 AM

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A while back I weighed in on why violence and looting, which are usually rare in the wake of a natural disaster, broke out in New Orleans after Katrina. Now Thomas Glass, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, has published some more speculations on the subject.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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