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Natural Disasters

There's a Riot Goin' On

Jesse Walker | 9.19.2005 11:26 AM


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.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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