REVIEW: The Square and the Tower – Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

Niall Ferguson 3 Stars – Half-Assed History from a Courtesan Niall Ferguson is neither Will Durant nor John Lewis Gaddis.  He is far removed from Howard Zinn. He is, in effect, an intelligent idiot, a courtesan historian. While the book’s intent may remind one of Eric S. Raymond’s classic essay on “The Cathedral or the …

Worth a Look: War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, Expanded Edition

War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi eugenics of Hitler and Mengele — and then created the modern movement of “human genetics.” Some 60,000 Americans were sterilized under laws in 27 states. …