The unprecedented use of artillery, airstrikes, tanks, and a whole arsenal of other weapons have destroyed much of the infrastructure in Gaza, but the war rages on, as the Palestinian fighters are well entrenched. The pattern has been that, after the bombardments cease and Israeli armored vehicles roll in, Gaza’s defenders emerge from their tunnel complexes and attack the Israeli soldiers, sometimes destroying their tanks and personnel carriers. (more…)
Tag: eugenics in the Third Reich
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A tempest in a teapot started brewing nearly two years ago at Vermont’s Middlebury College which perfectly exemplifies the weak tea that the conservative movement has been serving these past several decades. College President Laurie Patton effected a clandestine name change of a century-old building on campus. Mead Memorial Chapel was to be renamed (or “de-named”) Middlebury Chapel. The chapel’s name had originally honored John A. Mead, a physician who served as Vermont’s Governor from 1910 to 1912. Both an alumnus and trustee of the college, Mead had contributed most of the money for the chapel’s construction in 1916. (more…)
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Daniel Kevles
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985It is young men like you, Bertie, who make the person with the future of the race at heart despair. Cursed with too much money, you fritter away in idle selfishness a life which might have been made useful, helpful and profitable. You do nothing but waste your time on frivolous pleasures. You are simply an anti-social animal, a drone. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry. — P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) (more…)