Tag: From Darwin to Hitler
Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism
Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook.
Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin
The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these.
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.
New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”
I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory.
Our Friend, Tom Bethell
On February 12, 2021, Tom Bethell passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness.