At 07/12/02 16:17 -0500, Doug quoted himself:
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021216&s=reading20021203>December 3, 2002 What Are They Reading? by DOUG HENWOOD SECRETS OF THE TOMB: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. By Alexandra Robbins. Little, Brown. 230 pp. $25.95.
Gossip is fun, and learning other people's secrets is a thrill, and Secrets of the Tomb delivers on such pleasures. But it also makes you wonder about our leaders and the institutions that produce them.
Despite limitations in Althusser's approach, his concept of Ideological State Apparatuses surrounding the structures of the state, and including schools, universities and other social formations, seems to me to stand the test of time.
Thoughtful German writing about the rise of nazism, point in a similar direction.
Chris Burford
London
