Motto: "I read bad books so you won't need to."
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foreign policy, history and national security.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Kevin Jackson. 1922. Constellation of genius.
Dissembled banter of an upper-class Englishman but not without its amusing qualities. Does not mention science much. Einstein appears as a guru on a par with Gurdjieff and Alistair Crowley. But his artistic tastes are generally sound.
As a member of British humanities intelligentsia, he is bad with numbers. Mentions 20-30 million victims of Stalin's Great Purges (this is highly inconsistent with demographics). But correctly notices, contrary to modern propaganda, that great famines were mostly the results of mismanagement and callousness--similar to famines in the British Raj--I might mention.
As a member of British humanities intelligentsia, he is bad with numbers. Mentions 20-30 million victims of Stalin's Great Purges (this is highly inconsistent with demographics). But correctly notices, contrary to modern propaganda, that great famines were mostly the results of mismanagement and callousness--similar to famines in the British Raj--I might mention.
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