Another Take on Privilege

A decade agoI wrote the following Letter to the Editor in response to a New York Times article, about a wealthy US do-gooding family (“In Niger, Using a Vacation to Help the World’s Poor”). Not only is this sort of thing still happening, but it has become big business. And so I was glad to see Jacob Kushner’s article in Monday’s Times, “The Voluntourist Dilemma.”Ifyou really want tohelp, as I wrote a decade ago give money or better yet, as Kushner concludes, make it your career. (Similar to w...