Two new books show yet again how ideas have consequences. Bob Browning looks at a work of modern history and a management guide and discovers a lot in common.Bob Browning’s previous articles and reviews of his books are available on http://www.sprint.net.au/~rwb How do we explain people’s potential for cruelty and the capacity to remain indifferent to the infliction of suffering, even to the mass extermination of other human beings? Historian Robert Conquest who has spent his life exposing the e…
