A man walks into a store and buys a bottle of water for two dollars. He has more than two dollars left, and the store has more bottles to sell but the man does not buy another bottle. Observation of the transaction suggests that the man values the bottle of water more than the two dollars he forgoes to acquire it. Yet, despite the possibility of repeating the transaction on identical terms, he chooses not to do so.

By now, the decolonization narrative should be well known to anyone who pays any attention to leftwing rhetoric. In the Americas, the term “decolonization” virtually always means “de-Europeanization” and is premised largely on the idea that much of what we call “the West” exists on “stolen land” taken from indigenous peoples. These lands, we are told, must be abandoned and returned to the real natives. 

As the WHO warns of a 30 percent drop in external health aid to low-income countries, Rwanda’s community-based Mutuelle de Santé expanded its coverage to cover brain surgery and kidney transplants.