The Coldest Monster

Wasn't Nietzsche the Nazis' philosopher? Clancy Martin has been waiting for that question, and his answer runs through a family: a despised sister, her prominent anti-Semite husband, and a deceptively edited book of notes Nietzsche never meant to publish. Underneath the myth, Martin argues, stands the fiercest anti-nationalist of his century, and he reads the proof aloud: a speech that calls the state the coldest of all cold monsters, and another about the flies of the marketplace, the great performers who move in and do your valuing for you. Martin has found where the flies live now. You are probably holding it.