Tens of thousands of Haitians have already died in the wake of the devastating earthquake on Tuesday, and tens of thousands more are threatened by disease and a lack of food and clean water. We thought this would be an appropriate moment to revisit David B. Hart’s essay from the March 2005 issue of First Things , written in light of the tsunami that devastated the South Asian coastline in December 2004
Also, at The Anchoress, Elizabeth Scalia is keeeping an updated post on the latest events in Haiti.
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