New York Times columnist Ross Douthat reports:
The current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine includes a portrait of Irving Fisher, a Yale economics professor in the 1920s and ’30s and a giant of his field. The author, Richard Conniff, takes note of Fisher’s prodigious professional accomplishments and his private decency in order to foreground the real subject of his article: the economist’s role as one of his era’s highest-wattage proponents of eugenics.You'll want to check this one out. After all, a racist like Skull and Bones member Irving Fisher wrote columns for the New York Times.
