Peaceful discourse, civil protest, and open debate have all been essential to the American experience. Even more so on our university and college campuses, once heralded as pioneers of free…
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy as an elite institution that should be as “on the defensive” against populist discontent as…
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy’s reaction to popular discontent with elites, contemplates the populist future of conservatism, and considers some…
In her contribution to the Giving Review's symposium “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy,” Joanne Florino argues that the best way for conservative grantmakers to pursue their core…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…