A Plague on Your Houses: How New
York Was Burned Down and National
Public Health Crumbled (Haymarket)
by Rodrick Wallace
Fascinating
A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close
fire companies in New York City in the 1970s and a frightening study of the
way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of
enormous and unforeseen urban collapse. Using an approach more
commonly associated with epidemiology, Deborah and Rodrick Wallace
paint a terrifying picture of rampant social collapse spreading in the
patterns of a pandemic plague.
Personal Review: A Plague on Your Houses: How New York
Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
(Haymarket) by Rodrick Wallace

The significant feature of this magnificent book - the last shape taken by an
ongoing series of studies into the results of neo-liberal public policy by
Roderick and Deborah Wallace - is that the authors know what they are
talking about. Their expertise in statistical studies, developped in a
completely different field of study (zoology) is such that, when they first by
chance found themselves reading the so-called statistical arguments for
expenditure cuts in fire prevention and other services, they KNEW - not as
bleeding-heart liberals, but as professional statisticians - that what they
were reading was incompetent, pseudoscientific, ideologically motivated
nonsense. Since then they have waged, in a string of devastating
publications, a truly heroic struggle against the powers of prejudice,
governmental meanness and big business-motivated press disinformation.
If the the poor stupid general public that reads the newspapers and elects
the politicians were ever allowed to know about the Wallaces and their
battle for the truth, they would have long since been recognized as among
the greatest names alive. Think about it: why did they take it upon
themselves to fight this fight? Not, by any means, to advance their career:
their career was in another field, and might even have been endangered
by their taking controversial stances on public matters. Not for self-
interest; and not for a thirst for fame - for they carried on for decades in
spite of being completely ignored by the major media. They acted only out
of pure civic passion and a sense of right and wrong. Therefore, known or
unknown, the Wallaces are genuine living heroes, and their names
deserves to ring as nobly as that of old Sir William of that ilk, who also
fought for the downtrodden and ignored when there was nobody else to
fight for them.
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