This Wound is Consistent with Harm

It could have happened anywhere. I knew crime having lived in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New Haven. But I thought I was going to be ready for this moment in Kampala. As part of my characteristic risk-calculating analysis, I worked out what I thought would be a logical plan to diffuse an unexpected situation exactly like this months before I moved to Uganda to conduct research. I would calmly give the perpetrator a strategic amount of money,...