Quick-fix humanitarianism. (Ethiopian famine)

National Review | June 28, 1985| | Copyright

YOU'VE HEARD the song. You've seen the video. Perhaps you've even seen the movie on the making of the video. Fifty or so of America's leading pop singers, calling themselves U.S.A. for Africa, assembled to record a tune to raise money for the relief of famine in Ethiopia. The whole enterprise--from the choice of lyrics, to the prom-night atmosphere of the recording session, to the self-congratulatory inanities of the participants--altogether forms a serviceable metaphor for the lazy innocence and ignorance of America in the world. It would be so comforting to think, as ...

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