The Earthen Brothers; or, The Unmaking of the Übermensch

Knox Wells Testifies in the Trial of Alexander Cumberoff: A Reckoning of Character, Conduct, and the Curious Elasticity of Moral Fiber

It is a truth universally ignored that when young men of privilege gather in clandestine societies, they do so not to contemplate the virtues of justice and charity, but to conduct a far more enthralling experiment: to see how far they can go before the world—so tedious in its preoccupation with ethics—calls their bluff. This, in sum, is the predicament of Kn...