Tag: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Flannery: A Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Pioneering Darwin Critic
Gutsy, bold, and precise in her scholarship, she saw Darwin’s theory as offering convenient “scientific” support for class-divided, untrammeled survival-of-the-fittest industrial competition.
Himmelfarb and Her Haters
What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book?
Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”
Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject.
Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later
Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher.
Kevin Williamson on Intelligent Design
No intellectually challenging idea has attracted more uninformed criticism than ID.