New at Reason: Ron Bailey on Whether Nazism Can Happen Here

January 6, 2009

In 1961, obedience experiments conducted by Yale's Stanley Milgram famously revealed that Americans were no better at resisting the claims of authority than other people. So why hasn't the U.S. had its own Gulag or Auschwitz? The answer, writes Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey, is liberty. Our social institutions have traditionally limited what authorities can get away with.

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