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Anything Can Happen at the End of the World
a review of
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen. Echo Press, 2017.
What is the best way to kill off most life on Earth? Forget those Hollywood asteroids and simply disrupt CO2 equilibrium in the atmosphere. The rest will take care of itself.
Jan 29, 2019 Read the whole text...
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Hitler’s American Model
Review
a review of
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman. Princeton University Press 2017 press.princeton.eduititles/10925.html
The United States and Germany shared an important characteristic in the 1930s. Both were determined to cement white supremacy into Law. Racist statutes in the US were then state of the art. The Nazis sought to catch up after taking power in 1933.
Sep 6, 2018 Read the whole text...
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John Brown’s Raid & Space Ships Dot an Alternative History
Book review
a review of
Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson. PM Press, 2009
Forget Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Lincoln was wrong or disingenuous when he told Harriet Beecher Stowe that her novel brought on the Civil War. The Slavocracy was not frightened by mawkish sentiment.
No, it was rifle-toting abolitionist zealots willing to die that caused Southern panic.
Jan 17, 2019 Read the whole text...