

The Constitution of the
Confederate States of America, finalized on March 11, 1861 and now housed in
the University of Georgia Library. Photo credit: Public
domain.
Other Resources on Institutional Evil
Wikipedia, Assyrian Genocide (wikipedia)
by Ottoman Empire in 1915 against Assyrians, mostly Christians
Wikipedia, Pontic Genocide (wikipedia)
by Ottoman Empire in 1915 against Pontic Greeks, mostly Christians
Wikipedia, Armenian Genocide (wikipedia)
by Ottoman Empire in 1915 against Armenians, mostly Christians
Wikipedia, Unit 731 (Wikipedia
article) the biological and chemical research arm of the Imperial
Japanese army which conducted human experiments
Facing History and Ourselves (website)
Our World in Data (website)
DTJ (founded
2004) documenting crimes against children worldwide
The Synesis Journal: A Journal of Science,
Technology, Ethics, and Policy
John Gray, Heresies: Against Progress and Other
Illusions
Nicholson Baker, Why
I'm a Pacifist: The Dangerous Myth of the Good War Before
we blame God for the Holocaust, we need to read this article.
Jerry Elmer, Ordinary Evil: Vietnam's History
Reveals the Banality of Systemic Violence
Philip Gourevitch, After the Genocide When a
people murders up to a million fellow-countrymen, what does it mean to
survive? (New Yorker Magazine, Dec
18, 1995)
Paul Brown, Scientist "Killed Amazon Indians to
Test Race Theory" (Guardian, Sep
23, 2000) and Emily
Eaken, How Napolean Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial
Anthropologist (NY Times Magazine,
Feb 13, 2013)
Jonathan V. Last, The Case for the Empire (Weekly
Standard, May 16, 2002)
Eleanor Stein, Construction of an Enemy
(Monthly Review, Jul 1, 2003) about the Nazi technique of
pitting race vs. race, religion vs. religion, using nativism and foreign
policy
BBC News, Market Crisis 'Will Happen Again' (BBC
News, Sep 8, 2009) - an interview of Alan Greenspan, who blames human
nature
Jane Mayer, The Predator War What are the risks
of the C.I.A.’s covert drone program? (New
Yorker Magazine, Oct 26, 2009)
Ravi Somaiya, What Not to Say When Your Company
Is Ruining the World (Time, Jun 1,
2010) British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward misspeaks
Campbell Robertson, Police Are Charged in
Post-Katrina Shootings (NY Times,
Jul 13, 2010)
Andrew Tavani, Inside The Mind of Madoff: NYT's
Diana Henriques Discusses New Book 'Wizard Of Lies' (Huffington
Post, Apr 26, 2011)
Jake Halpern, Iceland's Big Thaw (NY
Times, May 13, 2011)
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, Steven
Pinker on the Alleged Decline of Violence (International
Socialist Review) and full
book (2012)
Lia Mandelbaum, Hitler's Inspiration and Guide:
The Native American Holocaust (Jewish
Journal, Jun 18, 2013)
Roger Berkowitz, Misreading 'Eichmann in
Jerusalem' (NY Times, Jul 7, 2013)
Kali Ma, Humanity
in Flux: Would a Species that Recognizes its Own Worth Be Actively
Destroying Itself? (The
Hampton Institute, Dec 12, 2013)
Michael B Kelley, This World Map Shows Where
Press Freedom Is Strongest And Weakest (Business
Insider, Feb 12, 2014)
Who Pays Film, Who Pays the Price? The Human
Cost of Electronics (youtube video,
Mar 4, 2014)
John Gray, Captain America's Moral Philosophy (The
New Republic, Apr 2, 2014)
David Daley, "America as the No. 1 Warmonger:
President Jimmy Carter Talks to Salon About Race, Cable News,
"Slut-Shaming" and More (Salon, Apr
10, 2014)
Olga Khazan, Why Do So Many Women Wear So Much
Makeup? (The Atlantic, Apr 28,
2014) even though men don't find make-up and thinness as attractive as
they think; why men think women are attracted by muscle even though they
aren't; the industries' deception
Graeme Wood, Hell is an Understatement: A
Report from the Bloody, Crumbling Central African Republic (The
New Republic, Apr 30, 2014)
Daniel R. Schwarz, Do the Humanities Help Us
Understand the World in Which We Live? (Huffington
Post, May 2, 2014)
NPR, Workers Dying in Qatar Ahead of 2022 World
Cup (NPR, May 23, 2014)
Maggie Zhang, 11 Psychological Tricks
Restaurants Use to Make You Spend More Money (Business
Insider, Jul 14, 2014)
Mary Nichols, Maker Of Common Blood Thinner
Pradaxa Withheld Critical Safety Data (Design
& Trend, Jul 26, 2014)
Shannon Whitehead, 5 Truths the Fast Fashion
Industry Doesn't Want You to Know (Huffington
Post, Aug 19, 2014)
Radley Balko, How Municipalities in St. Louis
County, MO Profit from Poverty (Washington
Post, Sep 3, 2014)
Paul Roberts, Instant Gratification: As the
economy gets ever better at satisfying our immediate, self-serving
needs, who is minding the future? (American
Scholar, Sep 8, 2014)
WBEZ, The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra (This
American Life, Sep 26, 2014)
Which Dictator Killed the Most People? (The
Mind Unleashed, Oct 4, 2014)
Sophie Kleeman, One Powerful Illustration Shows
Exactly What's Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola (Mic,
Oct 7, 2014)
C.J. Chivers, The Secret Casualties of Iraq's
Abandoned Chemical Weapons (NY
Times, Oct 14, 2014)
Adrian Chen, The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics
and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed (Wired,
Oct 23, 2014)
Eric Lichtblau, In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies
Used 1,000 Nazis (NY Times, Oct 26,
2014)
Eric Lichtblau, The Nazis Next Door: How
America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men (Amazon
book, Oct 28, 2014) and review by Fresh
Air, How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S. (NPR,
Nov 5, 2014); see also Kevin
C. Ruffner, CIA's Support to the Nazi War Criminal Investigations (CIA,
Apr 14, 2007)
Michael Allen, Massacre in the Family: My
Great-Great-Grandfather and an American Indian Tragedy (WSJ,
Nov 24, 2014)
Jane Mayer, Torture and the Truth: How
Unthinkable Cruelty Became Official Policy, But Will It Spur Lasting
Reform? (New Yorker Magazine, Dec
22, 2014)
Charles Davis, America, Nation of Torturers:
Stop Saying “This Isn’t Who We Are” — Here’s the Real Truth (Slate,
Dec 16, 2014)
Jack Cloherty and Pierre Thomas, Teens as Young
as 13 Rescued From Super Bowl Sex Trafficking (ABC
News, Jan 4, 2015)
Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip: The Secret
Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Amazon
book, Jan 20, 2015) and review by Jay
Watkins, Intelligence in Public Literature (CIA,
Oct 6, 2014) review posted before the book was officially released?
Deborah Becker and Shannon Dooling, Documentary
Series Looks at Sex Trafficking in Boston (NPR,
Jan 30, 2015)
Gary Haugen, The Hidden Reason for Poverty -
Violence (TED talk, Mar 2015)
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Raped on Campus? Don’t
Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing (Chronicle
of Higher Education, Mar 2, 2015)
Chris Bohjalian, Why Does Turkey Continue to
Deny Armenian Genocide? (Boston
Globe, Mar 9, 2015)
John Gray, Steven Pinker is Wrong About
Violence and War (Guardian, Mar 13,
2015)
Kevin Kruse, A Christian Nation? Since When? (NY
Times, Mar 14, 2015) how U.S. corporations linked libertarian capitalism
(anti-New-Deal) and Christianity from the 1930's
Oliver Laughland, Guatemalans Deliberately
Infected With STD's Sue Johns Hopkins University for $1bn (Guardian,
Apr 2, 2015)
Yuka Hayashi, Japan's Textbook Changes Get
Failing Grade From Neighbors (Wall
Street Journal, Apr 7, 2015)
Frank Bruni, Best, Brightest - and Saddest? (NY
Times, Apr 11, 2015)
WGBH, My Lai (PBS/WGBH
video)
Brittany Wong, The 10 Most Dangerous Phrases in
a Relationship (Huffington Post,
May 13, 2015) and see "The Moment I Knew" below
Rod Dreher, Heart of Darkness: War and the
Things We Don't Talk About (The
American Conservative, May, 19, 2015)
Lance Armstrong, If You Didn't Gear Up, Hard to
Stick Around (Dan Patrick Show, Jun
2, 2015)
Maria Konnikova, The Real Lesson of the
Stanford Prison Experiment (New
Yorker, Jun 12, 2015)
James W. Lowren, Why Do People Believe the
Myths About the Confederacy? Because Our Monuments and Textbooks Are
Wrong (Washington Post, Jul 1,
2015) an example of when history was written by the losing South
Adam B. Ellick and Nicholas Kristof, The Worst
Atrocity You've Never Heard Of (NY
Times, Jul 13, 2015) about the Nuba Mountains in Sudan
Talal al-Khatib, Tobacco Companies Still
Battling Smoking-Cancer Link (Seeker,
Jul 17, 2015)
Gabriel Sherman, How Roger Ailes Picked Trump,
and Fox Viewers, Over Megyn Kelly (New
York Magazine, Aug 11, 2015)
Bill McKibben, Exxon's Climate Lie: 'No
Corporation Has Ever Done Anything This Big or Bad' (Guardian,
Oct 14, 2015)
Paul Bloom, People Don't Actually Want
Equality (The Atlantic, Oct 22,
2015)
Lucius McMannis, Hacktivist Group Anonymous
Promises To De-Hood 1,000 KKK Members (Addicting
Info, Oct 27, 2015)
Liz Kowalczyk and Patricia Wen, Why Didn't
Anyone Stop Doctor Hardy? (Boston
Globe, Dec 6, 2015)
Hailey Wallace, The Man Who Killed Tamir Rice (Black
Enterprise, Dec 30, 2015) citing emotional instability and systemic
failure
Georgina Kenyon, The Man Who Studies the Spread
of Ignorance (BBC, Jan 6, 2016)
about corporate efforts at spreading disinformation
Sukjong Hong, The "Comfort Women Deal" Between
South Korea and Japan: Six Alternative Views (Korea
Expose, Feb 2, 2016)
Glynn Custred, Turning Anthropology from
Science into Political Activism (John
William Pope Center, Feb 17, 2016)
Sarah Kaplan, The Darker Link Between Ancient
Human Sacrifice and Our Modern World (Washington
Post, Apr 5, 2016)
Tristan Harris, How Technology Hijacks People’s
Minds—from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist (Medium,
May 18, 2016)
Daniel Marans, Trump Supports Cutting Social
Security From A ‘Moral Standpoint:’ Report (Huffington
Post, May 28, 2016) lack of transparency
Liyan Qi, U.S. Schools Expelled 8,000 Chinese
Students (Wall Street Journal, May
29, 2016)
Steven Paulikas, How Should We Respond to
‘Evil’? (NY Times, Jun 27, 2016)
John Oliver, Doping (Last
Week Tonight, Jun 26, 2016)
Lynsey Chutel, Germany Finally Apologizes for
Its Other Genocide - More Than a Century Later (Quartz,
Jul 16, 2016) and BBC
Namibia, Namibia Genocide and the Second Reich (BBC
video, 2004) 1 hr documentary
William Astore, Why It's So Hard for Members of
the Military to Speak Out (Tom
Dispatch, Aug 11, 2016)
NY Times Editorial Board, When Police Unions
Impede Justice (NY Times, Sep 3,
2016)
Om Malik, Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (The
New Yorker, Nov 28, 2016)
Jonathan Chait, David Brooks and the
Intellectual Collapse of the Center (New
York Magazine, Nov 29, 2016)
David A. Graham, The 'Comet Pizza' Gunman
Provides a Glimpse of a Frightening Future (The
Atlantic, Dec 5, 2016)
Josh O'Connor, The Asian Holocaust Killed Twice
As Many People As The Nazis Did (Dose,
Jan 16, 2017)
Pierre Keys, Alternative Facts in Bonhoeffer's
Germany (Christian Century, Feb 15,
2017)
Andrew Higgins, Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the
People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History (NY
Times, Feb 26, 2017)
Tim Harford, The Problem with Facts (Financial
Times, Mar 9, 2017) how Big Tobacco promoted "agnosticism", how the
Trump presidency follows that strategy
Sophia A. McClennen, The Right Wing War on
Facts: The New Partisan Divide That's Destroying Our Nation (Salon,
Jun 24, 2017)
Jerry Useem, Power Causes Brain Damage (The
Atlantic, Jul/Aug 2017) how powerful people lose mental capacities
because they insulate themselves from disagreement
Richard Lloyd Parry, The School Beneath the
Wave: The Unimaginable Tragedy of Japan's Tsunami (The
Guardian, Aug 24, 2017) a failure of bureaucratic leadership; attempt to
evade responsibility
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner, and
Lauren Kirchner, Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help
Extremist Sites Monetize Hate (ProPublica,
Aug 19, 2017) Although most tech companies have policies against working
with hate websites, PayPal, Stripe, Newsmax and others help keep more
than half of the most-visited extremist sites in business
Lynn Parramore,
Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
(Institute for New Economic Thinking, May 30,
2018) "Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the
Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian
Nancy MacLean"

Specific to World War II
Wikipedia, Individuals and Groups Assisting
Jews During the Holocaust (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia, Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (Wikipedia
article) whose actions and advocacy saved thousands of Jews during WW2
Wikipedia, Council of Jews and Christians,
a voluntary organization in Britain working against anti-Semitism
Sir Nicholas Winton, Man Who Rescued Nearly 700
Holocaust Victims Finds Himself in an Audience Comprised Entirely by
Those He Saved (BBC, 1988)
Nicholson Baker, Why
I'm a Pacifist: The Dangerous Myth of the Good War (Harper's
Magazine, May 2011) Before we blame God for the Holocaust, we need to
read this article.
Brian Rosner, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,
Prophet, Spy - A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich (Centre
for Public Christianity, May 12, 2011)
Michael Ignatieff, One Country Saved Its Jews.
Were They Just Better People? The Surprising Truth about Denmark in the
Holocaust (New Republic, Dec 14,
2013)
Tim Townsend, Mission at Nuremburg: An Army
Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis (Religion
and Politics, Apr 23, 2014)
Madison Park, How the Philippines Saved 1,200
Jews During the Holocaust (CNN, Feb
3, 2015)
Irene Archos, Mother Maria of Paris Says "Oxi!"
to the Nazi Mass Murder Machine (Pravoslavie,
Mar 11, 2015)
David Gelernter, Why Should a Jew Care Whether
Christianity Lives or Dies? (First
Things, Mar 24, 2015)
Andrew Higgins, WWII Hero Credits Luck and
Chance in Foiling Hitler’s Nuclear Ambitions (NY
Times, Nov 20, 2015)
Robert D. McFadden, Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of
669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106 (NY
Times, Jul 1, 2015)
Catholic News Agency, Heroic Virtue of
Ukrainian Bishop Who Sheltered Hundreds of Jews Recognized (CNA,
Jul 17, 2015)
Amanpour, Amazing Story of How Bulgaria's Jews
Were Saved in WWII (CNN News, Jul
24, 2015) about King
Boris III of Bulgaria (Wikipedia)
John Sandinopoulos, The NO of Greek Clergy in
1940 (Mystagogy blog, Oct 28, 2015)
Ishaan Tharoor, What Americans Thought of
Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II (Washington
Post, Nov 17, 2015)
Daniel A. Gross, The U.S. Government Turned
Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies (Smithsonian
Magazine, Nov 18, 2015)
Carol Kuruvilla, Japanese Schindler Who Saved
6,000 Lives During World War II Finally Gets a Movie (Huffington
Post, Jan 19, 2016)
David Swanson, Top 12 Reasons the Good War Was
Bad: Hiroshima in Context (Washingtons
blog, May 24, 2016)
Newsner, Woman Hides Thousands of Children in
Coffins - Then She's Arrested and Her Dark Secret Emerges (Newsner,
Dec 17, 2016)
Kevin M. Levin, The Pernicious Myth of the
‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials
(Smithsonian, Aug 17, 2017)
The Florida Bookshelf,
5 Books on the True History Behind Confederate
Monuments
(University of Florida Press, Oct 2017) very helpful books on
unmasking white nationalist propaganda about the South, the Civil War,
and American history
Adam Serwer, The Nationalist's Delusion
(The Atlantic, Nov 20, 2017) a helpful, historically broad
analysis of how racism manifests in politics
Yoram Hazony, The Dark Side of the
Enlightenment (Wall Street Journal, Apr 6, 2018) Today’s
advocates oversell the benefits of unfettered reason. They dismiss the
contributions of tradition, religion and nationalism to human progress.
Kristin Romey, Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child
Sacrifice May Be World's Largest (National Geographic,
Apr 26, 2018) Incan child sacrifice dating back ~550 years ago
David Gelles,
Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’
(NY Times Magazine, Nov 8, 2018)
Sarah Condon,
As Advent Approaches: Evil is Well-Organized
(Mockingbird, Nov 27, 2018) compares the death of
journalist Jamal Kashoggi to the death of the concubine in Judges 19;
this type of evil requires organization
Ben Lefebvre and Nick Juliano,
How Zinke Lost His Way
(Politico, Dec 21, 2018) a somewhat sympathetic take
examining lack of conflict-of-interest laws in his native Montana
Eric Levitz,
How American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth
(NY Magazine, Jan 2, 2019) involving American
foreign policy


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