Going Green for White Supremacy: Preserving the Frontier
Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
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Going Green for White Supremacy: Scientific Racism on Display
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Eugenics Is Born
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Eugenicists’ fear of racial intermixing made them natural allies with the feminists of the powerful birth control movement. While contraception is widespread today, few people are aware that in the…
Going Green for White Supremacy: The End of an Era
For all its might it was clear by the mid-1920s that eugenics was losing its powerful influence in government and the scientific community. It’d taken decades to build—only to collapse…
Opposition “Anti-Marxist Liberals” in Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism
In his book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that conservatism should return to what he considers its older, deeper, Anglo-American religious and nationalist roots—as opposed to continuing to be a…
Philanthropy in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
In his new book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle recounts the ascent and dominance in American thought and public policy of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism downgraded the…
Philanthropy’s Corruption of Politics, and Vice Versa
From his perspective as a University of Oxford political philosopher, Theodore M. Lechterman has introduced a richly substantive critique of philanthropy’s anti-democratic nature to the rising number of such critiques…
“Pathological Altruism” May Kill a City Near You
San Francisco had a public health crisis last year. But it wasn't COVID. It was a 150 percent increase in the number of drug overdoses (697), more than double the…
Conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen
Beginning in the 1990s, the conservative Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation framed its mission as helping to develop and implement an anti-progressive “New Citizenship” agenda. Victor Davis Hanson’s new…