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Don't miss Michael Knox Beran's City Journal piece that describes how vacuous celebs like Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Bono and Brad Pitt prop up dictators. But, hey, at least they make themselves feel good. And the PR is priceless. Beran calls them Africrats:
Like earlier practitioners of paternalist charity, today's Africrats propose policies that treat the material effects of Africa's problems-disease, dirty water, hunger-not their underlying causes, which the West, too, once struggled with.
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