Author: Michael Flannery
On Alfred Russel Wallace, NPR Gets It Right, Sort Of . . .
It’s too bad that Anthony Kuhn and others cannot tell what Paul Harvey used to call “the rest of the story.”
More on Darwin Deleted: What Is Bowler’s Beef?
The fact that Darwinism is in need of an apologetic for its social record should give its supporters (including Peter Bowler) more than momentary pause.
What Would a World Without Darwin Look Like?
Imagine that Darwin had fallen overboard and there was no Origin of Species or anything else from his pen.
Why Darwin Is Remembered More than Wallace
In a real sense the issue of Wallace’s status is not settled.
Hijacking Alfred Russel Wallace
Consider David Attenborough’s concern with population control. Wallace specifically and vocally denounced the population regulators of his own day.
Galton on Darwin and Eugenics
I’ve read many defenders of Charles Darwin who try to distance him from the eugenics movement.
Darwinism and Stalinism
Biographically speaking, reading Darwin’s Origin was seminal in Stalin’s own march toward a godless communism.
Let’s Not Be So Quick to Dismiss Paul Johnson’s Darwin
His take on Darwin’s unwitting contribution to 20th-century genocide and mass murder (though certainly unintended) is more right than wrong.
Some Thoughts on Alfred Russel Wallace 99 Years Later
The co-discoverer of natural selection died on the morning of November 7, 1913, at 90 years of age. It was the end of a remarkable career.
Jacques Barzun, RIP
Reading his Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage was transformative for me.