Exile Classic: The Economist: The World's Sleaziest Magazine - By Mark Ames - The eXiled

If you go back toThe Economist's beginnings in Victorian England, you'll find, for example, the magazine's brave stand on the Great Irish Famine, the English-led genocide that left up to two million Irish dead. When a cry went up to stop the famine,The Economist countered, "It is no man's business to provide for another. If left to the natural law of distribution, those who deserve more would obtain it."