Power Makes Stupid: Reich, Kultur, and Bildung in Imperial Germany and America
Power Makes Stupid: Reich, Kultur, and Bildung in Imperial Germany and America
The story about this essay is that I did a lot of work for it in July 2005; then, because I decided I didn't like the form it was in and it would need a ton more work, I largely sat on it until early spring 2010 around the same time I was writing the last essay I did on education, at which time I started lavishing attention on it again.
And now, after a really tremendous amount of work that I can really feel at this point, it's finally ready, five years later in July 2010. Better late than never.
I really hope that plenty of the meticulous work shows, though some of it was stupid stuff like time finding quotes I remembered existed, without having the vaguest idea where. In any case it had been too long since my last really in-depth piece.