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Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.

He marvels that he and his friends played soccer throughout the day yet “never drank any liquids.”

“In America, you get the justice you can afford,” said Victor Rocha, a longtime friend, member of the Pechanga Band of Indians and conference chair of the Indian Gaming Association.

“This real? You’re opening a coffee shop in your home?” one friend asked.

We were invited to Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s jazz night by our mutual friends, Rich and Nicole.