looked at an online excerpt from Whitman’s book, but from what I’ve seen, Burleigh and Wipperman isn’t cited. However, I’m judging from freely available excerpts and “look inside this book” . I may have to pay a visit to a library/ bookstore.
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It’s an older book (and was when I read it, like 8 or 9 years ago, maybe more), and it might just be out of date - it seems like it was already a few years old by then. I’m sure lots of literature has been written on eugenics in the nazi regime since then.
Either, way, Whitman’s book looks interesting.
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BTW: ever read SJ Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man? It’s a history of IQ testing that is also, not coincidentally, a history of scientific racism. You’d probably find it interesting.
It also contains the clearest non-mathematician’s explanation of factor analysis ever written.
http://www.arkiv.certec.lth.se/kk/dokument/mismeasureofman.pdf
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I have not. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
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The appendix smashing The Bell Curve is only in the later editions, BTW. The pdf I linked above has it.
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I’m surprised I haven’t read it yet. I will need to.
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Apparently, the New York Times has a series of articles on communism in teh 20th century, since it’s the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution:
Tariq Ali’s article on Lenin was pretty good!
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He’s not entirely wrong. If the girl had friends and was wielding a spear, the whole tableau might begin making a little bit of sense. After 30 years of being an unironic imitation of Dogs Playing Poker.
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I wonder if they also complained about Mr. Robot, where activists cut its balls off.
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He really won’t like my bronze sculpture of a trampled eagle being installed at the feet of the bull.
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Works on so many levels.
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Speaking of trampling:
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I get the reference, but to me that image says “Help! Help! I’m being oppressed by Monty Python!”
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Hmm. Thank you for the ten foot pole, but I’m still not going to touch it.
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I’ve come to see Rachel Dolezal as a bit of a weird fantasist, tbh, but by far the most fascinating thing about this whole concept is the violence (and I don’t mean to claim that ‘words are violence’, I just mean the strength of feeling and compulsive urge to eradicate the concept wherever it arises) reaction against it.
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