The Nameless Masons of the Gold Coast
The Vanderbilts and Kahns get the brass plaques. The brick and stone of Oheka Castle and Long Island’s Gold Coast estates were laid by immigrant workers whose names nobody recorded.
Consilience by E.O. Wilson — The Book He Was Allowed to Write After the One That Got Him Burned
A review of E.O. Wilson’s Consilience — the grand unification project that makes no sense without understanding what happened to Wilson in 1975.
Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Émile Durkheim — The Book That Turned Death Into Data and Data Into a Mirror
Few books carry a title that stops conversation the way this one does. Set it…
