Skull and Bones

(My Original Review of Secrets of the Tomb)

Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Powerby Alexandra Robbins Robbins’s book isn’t terrible. She reveals some of the banal truth behind the seemingly sinister facade of the Yale “tombs” in her sometimes rambling work. But her own sips of secret society Kool-Aid are obvious; her stated …

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Conspiracy Theorists Believe In God

We take as today’s text some sentences from the fourth paragraph from the end of Secrets of the Tomb, a fairly meaningless work (you can read my micro-review here), but in the closing lines the author, Alexandra Robbins makes some statements that illustrate the illogic of most conspiracy theorizing, both pro and contra. “However sinister …

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