The imposing Torre del Mangia is a 289-foot tower rising over Siena’s city hall. Below, the Piazza del Campo serves as the Tuscan town’s market square, civic meeting place, and entertainment venue. Together they form the metaphor in the title of The Square and the Tower, the British historian Niall Ferguson’s new book about networks, hierarchies, and how they have interacted throughout history, writes John McClaughry in a review of Ferguson’s book for the latest edition of Reason.
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