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Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing
“Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people.”
When Darwin Came to Africa
Charles Darwin didn’t spend much time in Africa. But his poisonous ideas certainly did.
Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism
Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right.
Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism
The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic.
Weikart, Medved: Getting to the Bottom of “Hitler’s Religion”
You think Adolf Hitler is dead? In a physical sense, yes, but he lives on in ludicrous comparisons that political and cultural partisans seem unable to stop themselves from making.