A fascinating exchange played out in the UK’s House of Lords on 2 June 2020. Neil Ferguson, the physicist from Imperial College London who created the main epidemiology model...
About Phillip W. Magness
The Economist
No, Keynes did not ‘sit out’ the debate on eugenics
Biographers of John Maynard Keynes have a peculiar habit of treading very lightly around their subject matter’s involvement in the eugenics movement. The oversight is not for...
The Historian
How FDR Killed Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation
December 1939 marked an unusual moment in American politics. Although a raging world war consumed the European continent and the distant perimeter of the Pacific, the United...